Barry Miles (1)

This is a competent biography of Zappa the iconoclast. I've never been a great fan of him as a personality or composer, but learned quite a bit here about his life, achievements and peculiar foibles. It hasn't provoked an interest in Zappa's music, unlike most music biographies I've read, so I won't be browsing through Spotify too long.

This is a fantastic book. Unfortunately, it actually has too much sex and it seems like some of the material is disorganized, but I really enjoy listening to the audiobook. War example is when he talks about 10 years he talks about nothing but sex with underage prostitute boys, instead of other things about Tangiers that would’ve been more interesting to me.

An insider's account of the artistic life of Soho over the years. Not as interested in music as in the other arts. Unfortunately not as detailed at the sweet spot of my interests.

great book. managed to listen to about 20 of his albums while reading the book, still more to go. learned a lot about him that i had no idea about. great referencing of other books and interviews. it was excellent how he got different opinions of different events, many of franks opinions of events from his autobio seemed to be very different from how others saw them.