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Earth to Moon
Frank Zappa and Family - Book - by Moon Unit Zappa
(2024)
The saying goes that "God only gives you what you can handle." Well God
didn't grow up in my atheist, Wiccan, fame-laden, oversexed,
teetotalling, drug-free, cloistered, chaotic, non-communicative,
workaholic, feral-feeling house.'For Moon Unit, daughter of musician
Frank Zappa and his 'manager', Gail, processing a life so unique, so
punctuated by the whims of creative urges, the tastes of popular culture
and the calculus of celebrity, has at times been eviscerating. But it
is her deep sense of humour and unshakeable humility that keeps her -
and this memoir - pinned to the ground. A child-star at age 14 after
her accidental international hit single (recorded with her father),
'Valley Girl', turned her into a reluctant celebrity, Moon Unit Zappa's
life has been utterly extraordinary from her birth in 1967 into a family
that was already blessed/cursed as music royalty thanks to the
acknowledged genius of Frank.
But what are the consequences of
growing up in a family who spend most of their time naked arguing about
sexual/extra-marital liaisons and practising white magic in a
free-for-all state of nonconformist, virtuoso abandon?Earth to Moon is a
reckoning with self-esteem, the ghosts of the past and a mother and a
father who, in the process of leaving their mark upon on the world,
scarred their first daughter on home soil. Brutally self-deprecating and
funny as hell, it belies a rose-tinted perspective on the 70s and 80s
west coast American scene, from within the belly of the beast of the
rock and roll world.
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