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Earth to Moon by Moon Unit Zappa review – rock and a hard place

Frank Zappa’s daughter on her wildly inappropriate upbringing and its aftermath

As her tale of growing up in a rock’n’roll family wends on, you wonder how the eldest child of LA musician Frank Zappa and his manager Gail survived decades of deeply iffy parental behaviour and the complex dynamic it seeded between her and her creatively named siblings. The household was chaotic, with regular mealtimes a rarity; Frank and Gail – the kids used their first names – were “pagan absurdists” who eschewed alcohol and hard drugs but made use of Ouija boards and put “orgy artwork” on the walls. Reliving the height of the loopiness – when these two solipsistic parents were raising four small people in a tableau populated by liggers, fortune tellers and mistresses in Germany and New Zealand – must have dredged up a lot of semi-processed trauma for Moon.

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