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Frank Zappa‘s only Top 10 album, 1974’sApostrophe (‘), will be released as a six-disc set for its 50th anniversary later this summer. The expanded reissue – which includes the original album remastered as well as live tracks and session rarities from the era – will be released on Sept. 13. Following the release of 1973’s Over-nite Sensation, which was credited to the Mothers, Zappa began assembling Apostrophe (‘) from new recordings and some archival tracks dating back a few years. READ MORE: Frank Zappa ‘Funky Nothingness’ Album Review The album was a hit for Zappa, reaching the Top 10 in 197...
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Tom Fowler, the bassist best known for playing with Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention as well as Ray Charles, died this week at the age of 73. Engineer and producer Dennis Moody confirmed the loss in a Facebook post, noting that Fowler died on July 2 from complications of an aneurysm he suffered the previous week. Moody praised Fowler as “one of the most creative, intelligent and wackiest people I’ve ever met. Tom played bass on a half-dozen Frank Zappa albums, and as well of the last 10 years with Ray Charles. I met Tom and his brother Walt when I was 20 years old. He and I remained fr...
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Ed Mann, the longtime percussionist for Frank Zappa, has reportedly died at the age of 70. Mann’s passing was revealed on social media by fellow musician and Zappa collaborator, Chad Wackerman. “Rest easy my old friend Ed Mann,” Wackerman wrote. “A masterful and brilliant percussionist. He could read anything Frank Zappa threw at him and I never once heard him make a mistake. He toured with Frank for 11 years and went on to record with many of the greats. Ed was a creative force and a great teacher and will be missed.” Mann’s love of music began in childhood. He received his first drum kit at ...
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Selma Blair calls her cane a “dance partner” as she continues to battle multiple sclerosis. The ‘Cruel Intentions’ actress, 50, who also wears a turban as she suffers alopecia, said her stylish set of sticks have helped her overcome “compromised” movement due to her nerve disease, diagnosed in 2018. She told the new issue of Harper’s Bazaar magazine: “Movement has been so important to me my whole life. I was a gymnast. I always wanted to be a dancer, but I never had any talent, never even took a lesson, and then to have my movement compromised... . “But then I found the cane and realised how m...
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