My Brother Was A Mother Take 2
Patrice "Candy" Zappa

Patrice "Candy" Zappa, the youngest member of the Zappa family, tells what it was like growing up a Zappa — especially since her other brother was the legendary Frank Zappa! Rare family photos and Candy's incisive commentary make this a must-read book. Originally published in 2003, this edition includes Larry Rogak's exclusive interview with Frank Zappa and fan recollections of meeting FZ.

Paperback 102 pages illustrated

UK £12.00. . Europe £13.00 . . Rest £14.00

Chances And How To Take Them
Francis V. Zappa

Most Frank Zappa fans know that his father Francis wrote a book on gambling, but very few people have actually seen it! Chances: And How To Take Them was released by a small publisher in June 1966 and quickly disappeared after its first printing. This first-ever reissue of Chances: And How To Take Them draws upon Francis Zappa's lifelong career in teaching and working with mathematics as well as his interest in presenting how maths is involved in games of chance. Francis Zappa walks the reader through the mathematical formulas of combinations and probability to illustrate the mechanics of these games of chance and why they are so hard to win. The reader can then apply these principles for their own amusement!

Paperback 120 pages illustrated

UK £11.00. . Europe £12.00 . . Rest £13.50

Zappa The Hard Way
Andrew Greenaway

The deluxe hardback version of Andrew Greenaway's account of the 1988 tour has now sold out but fortunately there's a new paperback edition. He's interviewed most of the surviving band members and others associated with the tour to unravel the goings on behind the scenes that drove Zappa to call a halt to proceedings, despite the huge personal financial losses.
Foreword by Candy Zappa and Afterword by Pauline Butcher.

Paperback 200 pages illustrated

UK £15.00. . Europe £16.50 . . Rest £19.50

Freak Out!
My Life With Frank Zappa
Pauline Butcher

Pauline Butcher was Frank's secretary from 1967 to 1971, starting when she was summoned to Frank’s London hotel room to transcribe the lyrics of Absolutely Free. Frank subsequently invited Pauline to work for him in Los Angeles, where she lived at the log cabin in the Hollywood Hills. Pauline wrote this book using the diaries she kept at the time and the long letters she wrote home nearly every week which her mother kept, so there's lots of inside information about life at the Zappas. Mixing with eccentric hangers-on, Oscar winners, music-industry heavyweights - and some English rock stars - she ran the Mothers' fan club United Mutations and managed the GTOs, gaining an unparalleled insight into Zappa’s life and work in the process.
Paperback 320 pages illustrated

UK £15.00. . Europe £17.00 . . Rest £21.00

The Hook
Scott Parker

Volume Four of Scott Parker's series, named after an onstage conducted signal frequently employed by FZ at this time, covers the "Roxy era" from September 1973 through to the spring of 1974. It follows the same format as the previous volumes but this one is professionally printed so the production values are way up this time. As in Blessed Relief there's a short section of corrections to previous volumes.

Limited signed edition

Paperback 248 pages

UK £35.00. . Europe £37.00 . . Rest £41.00

REISSUED
Them Or Us (The Book)
Frank Zappa

A facsimile edition of Frank's book published in 1984 (complete with dot matrix typeface).
"This cheesy little home-made book was prepared for the amusement of people who already enjoy Zappa music. It is not for intellectuals or other dead people. It is designed to answer one of the more troubling questions related to conceptual continuity: 'How do all of these things that don't have anything to do with each other fit together, forming a larger absurdity?' This is a story book. It is not a rock & roll biography" FZ

Paperback 350 pages

UK £12.00. . Europe £14.00 . . Rest £17.00

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Blessed Relief
Scott Parker

Volume Three of Scott Parker's series covers the period 1972 to September 1973, or from Just Another Band From LA to Overnite Sensation. It follows the same format as the previous volumes but it's now even bigger (and better according to Scott). It also includes a short section of corrections to Volumes 1 and 2.

Limited signed edition

Paperback 398 pages

UK £30.00. . Europe £32.50 . . Rest £39.00

The Zappa Supplement One
Scott Parker

In this supplementary volume to the RECORDINGS OF FRANK ZAPPA series, Scott Parker delves into the story of what has become a Holy Grail for Zappa fans, the unreleased 1969 12-LP box set The History And Collected Improvisations Of The Mothers Of Invention.
Part two details the story of the all-FZ Mud Shark bootleg LP label, including the recollections of Mud Shark founder Studebacher Hoch.”


Paperback 120+ pages

UK £20.00. . Europe £22.00 . . Rest £24.00

Strictly Genteel
Scott Parker

Volume 2 of Scott Parker’s musical history. This new book takes a look at the recordings of Frank Zappa, Hot Rats and The Mothers from 1970 to 1971. It’s in the same format as Vol 1 so it includes a full discography of authorized and unauthorized releases as well as detailed listings of all known circulating "underground" live and studio recordings.


Paperback 300+ pages

UK £28.00. . Europe £30.00 . . Rest £35.00

Hungry Freaks, Daddy
Scott Parker

This is volume 1 of a four-book set documenting the musical history of Frank Zappa and covers the years 1959-1969. Part 1 is a comprehensive discography with separate sections for albums, singles, compilations, bootlegs and everything else. Part 2 reviews all the circulating non-commercial recordings including transcriptions for stage announcements. Part 1 is copiously illustrated with scans of the artwork. Scott originally produced a limited edition of 100 signed copies. These have now sold out but we can still offer the same edition, illustrated in colour, but unsigned.

Paperback 300+ pages

UK £28.00. . Europe £30.00 . . Rest £35.00

Cosmik Debris
Greg Russo

Now back in stock

This is the book to have if you have to know every last little detail. 200 pages of biography plus another 120 pages of discography, track listings, concert schedules,unreleased song list etc. and lots of photographs.

Paperback 350 pages Illustrated

UK £18.00 . . Europe £20.00 . . Rest £26.00

The Words and Music of Frank Zappa
Kelly Fisher Lowe

Not so much a biography of Zappa as a study of his work. The first part looks at Zappa as a satirist and writer of art songs. The second part is a cultural analysis of his music (33 albums worth) that argues Zappa's music offers a caustic and prophetic critique of the American dream.

Hardback 208 pages
UK £26.00. . Europe £28.00 . . Rest £31.00

Paperback 240 pages (with a new introduction by the author)
UK £15.75. . Europe £17.25 . . Rest £19.50

Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart and the Secret History of Maximalism
Michel Delville & Andrew Norris

A comparative account of the musical and cultural acts of Zappa and Captain Beefheart. Written in the iconoclastic spirit of Zappa’s art, this book traces the mixed media experiments of California freakdom through the dada blues of Beefheart, mapping out the pleasures of imaginative excess.
Paperback 162 pages

UK £17.00 . . Europe £18.00 . . Rest £20.00

Academy Zappa
edited by Ben Watson and Esther Leslie

Proceedings of the First International Conference of Esemplastic Zappology.
Thirteen papers presented at this conference are now in book form together with an introduction by Ben Watson
Paperback 250 pages Illustrated

UK £16.00. . Europe £17.50 . . Rest £19.75

The Complete Guide
Ben Watson

This new edition of Ben Watson’s
guide to the music of Zappa has been updated to include the 2005 releases. There’s also a new colour photo section.

Paperback 120 pages Illustrated

Now Out of Print

Frank Zappa by Barry Miles
The new biography

Now in paperback. Illustrated, 440 pages

UK £12.00 . . Europe £14.00 . . Rest £17.00

Electric Don Quixote by Neil Slaven

A straightforward and clear biography which is well-researched and accurate.

Paperback 400 pages Illustrated

UK £12.75 . . Europe £14.00 . . Rest £16.75

Pamela Des Barres
Let's Spend The Night Together

Subtitled "Backstage Secrets Of Rock Muses and Supergroupies" this is the stories of 24 groupies as told to Pamela Des Barres.

Hardback. 375 pages

UK £19.00 . . Europe £21.50 . . Rest £25.00

New edition

Pamela Des Barres
I'm With The Band - Confessions Of A Groupie
The definitive 60s memoir of sex and rock 'n' roll written by a member of the GTOs. First published in 1987

Paperback 320 pages illustrated

UK £12.00 . . Europe £13.00 . . Rest £15.00