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Blue Fairy Wren's avatar

There was one musician who slightly flummoxed him. In Australia in the 1970's Gary McDonald's comedy character Norman Gunston interviewed Zappa and jammed with him. At the end Zappa comments that he "went off key". The huge joke that was hilarious to Australians was that he had broken into the news theme of the national broadcaster, the ABC. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mUQ00i9rH4

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" If it wasn’t for the borderline (or, let’s admit it, way-across-the-border) obscenity, one might even think him a prude. For the record, Frank Zappa eventually celebrated his twenty-fifth anniversary with wife Adelaide Gail Sloatman—quite an achievement for any rocker, but especially for one who died at age 52."

As I recall, he had a mistress living in one of the guest houses in his compound for years, and Gail was just expected to deal with it. Moon has some very bitter stories about the era.

I can't recall the name of the mistress--I think she was one of 70's super groupies, but she's also written about how Zappa kept printing a mailing address on his albums in case you wanted to contact Frank, and this was how they reconnected and the live-in situation evolved.

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