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Freak Out - My Life with Frank Zappa: Laurel Canyon 1968--71 - cover

Freak Out - My Life with Frank Zappa: Laurel Canyon 1968--71

Pauline Butcher

Publisher: Plexus Publishing Ltd.

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This new, completely revised and updated edition contains a wealth of new material, excerpts from the author's diaries and private letters home about life in Hollywood.  In 1967, 21-year-old Pauline Butcher was working for a London secretarial agency when a call came through from a Mr Frank Zappa asking for a typist.The assignment would change her life forever. For three years, Pauline served as Zappa's PA, moving with him, his family and the Mothers of Invention, to a log cabin in Laurel Canyon in the Hollywood Hills, where the 'straight' young English girl mixed with Oscar winners and rock royalty. Freak Out! is the captivating story of a naive young English girl thrust into the mad world of a musical legend as well as the most intimate portrait of Frank Zappa ever written.
Available since: 09/11/2023.
Print length: 368 pages.

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