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Aired: Friday, December 10, 2004 8-9PM ET
The 1966 album "Freak Out" was Frank Zappa's first record with the Mothers of Invention, and a landmark in rock history. Zappa, who died of prostate cancer in 1993, was savagely critical of the American consumer society and scornful of what he saw as the shallow, posturing sybarites of the 1960s counter-culture.
Though he revered the challenging composers Stravinsky and Varese, it was restless musical invention that elevated Zappa in the eyes of fans in the United States, and especially abroad. Czech president Vaclav Havel once told Zappa that he loved his 1975 album "Bongo Fury," and often listened to it in the dark days before the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Velvet Revolution.
Barry Miles, the famed chronicler and biographer of the 1960s, knew Zappa well and has just written a biography of the rocker titled "Zappa: A Biography." Of all the labels that fans want to apply to him, says Miles, the hugely troubled, hugely talented Frank Zappa was, above all, an American iconoclast.
Tune in to hear a conversation with biographer Barry Miles about the life and music of rock revolutionary, Frank Zappa.
| · | Barry Miles, veteran British journalist and biographer, and author of the new book, "Zappa: A Biography" |
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Review of Week's Major News |
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Among this week's major news:
1) Hamid Karzai is sworn in as Afghanistan's first democratically-elected President.
2) Congress passes the intelligence reform bill, which implements many of the recommendations of the 9/11 commission.
3) Donald Rumsfeld is grilled by soldiers about shortages of armor and other equipment.
4) U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Danforth gives Kofi Annan a vote of confidence, after some members of Congress had called for his resignation.
5) Canada's Supreme Court clears the way for national legalization of gay marriage.
6) OPEC announces a major cut in oil production.
7) Wangari Maathai is awarded the Nobel Prize, the first African woman to receive that honor.
Hear On Point news analyst Jack Beatty and host Tom Ashbrook discuss this week's major news developments.
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