Frank Zappa; A Brief Biography

Once, Robert Shelton wrote in The New York Times in December 1966, the most original new group to simmer out of the steaming rock n'roll underground in the last hour and one-half is an audacious crew from the West Coast called The Mothers of Invention.' It was Frank Zappa the leader of the band who led the band in to a totally different flow from the main stream of that time, precisely the hippies psychedelia. Along with The Mothers of Invention Zappa devoted his creativity into a wide scheme of music, from rock music, jazz ensembles, symphonic orchestra, to synthesizers as well as music works constructed from pre-recorded, synthesized or sampled sources.
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