A super-deluxe edition of Frank Zappa’s 200 Motels soundtrack will mark the album's 50th anniversary. Released in October 1971, the original LP contained music related to his surreal movie of the same ...

Ringo Starr — dressed as Frank Zappa, mustache and all, yet playing someone named “Larry the Dwarf” – descends on wires from the ceiling of a TV studio while holding a prop genie lamp. Our Master of ...

1 Reba McEntire Drops Previously Unreleased ANNIE GET YOUR GUN Songs "This marks the 101 st Frank Zappa album release and the last record Gail creatively worked on, as well," says Ahmet Zappa. "It was ...

Frank Zappa’s 200 Motels is getting a massive 50th-anniversary reissue for the 1971 film soundtrack. Long out-of-print, the new definitive six-CD box set arrives November 19th packed with the original ...

Frank Zappa’s 200 Motels is an education in musical composition, soundtrack recordings, and rock history. In celebration of its 50th anniversary, Zappa Records, UMe, and MGM assembled a definitive ...

The history of Frank Zappa’s “200 Motels” is much like its composer; enigmatic and riddled with disparate dimensions. Originally culled from various musical scribblings written while on tour, and ...

A one-hour documentary on the making of Frank Zappa's bizarre 1971 comic musical. Vintage private footage from Frank's personal archives plus behind-the-scenes of the actual shooting and recording.

At Wednesday’s 10th birthday party for Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Los Angeles Philharmonic will perform the world premiere of Frank Zappa’s “200 Motels.” It’s made up of 13 orchestral suites by the ...

A vast amount of percussion formed a bric-a-brac horseshoe around the Festival Hall’s wide stage, and was called upon to make a great deal of noise at times. A rock band and multiple synths and ...

Is that a real poncho? I mean, is that a Mexican poncho, or is that a Sears poncho? Marc With a C intends to find out as he continues to traverse Frank Zappa‘s monolithic catalog this time from 1971’s ...

A recording of one of the most unorthodox performances in the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s history — a 2013 rendition of the orchestral suites from Frank Zappa’s “200 Motels” — will be released Nov. 20.