Frank Zappa

Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, songwriter, composer, record producer, actor and filmmaker. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa composed rock n' roll, jazz, jazz fusion, orchestral and musique concrète works, and produced almost all of the more than sixty albums he released with his band the Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album covers.

Zappa was a self-taught composer and performer, and his diverse musical influences led him to create music that was often difficult to categorize. While in his teens, he acquired a taste for 20th-century classical composers such as Edgard Varèse, Igor Stravinsky, and Anton Webern, along with 1950s rhythm and blues music. He began writing classical music in high school, while at the same time playing drums in rhythm and blues bands; later switching to electric guitar. His 1966 debut album with the Mothers of Invention, Freak Out!, combined songs in conventional rock and roll format with collective improvisations and studio-generated sound collages. He continued this eclectic and experimental approach, irrespective of whether the fundamental format was rock, jazz or classical.

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Valley girl

Valley girl is a socio-economic stereotype depicting a class of women characterized by the colloquial California English dialect Valleyspeak and vapid materialism.

The label originally referred to a swell of upper-middle class girls living in the early 1980s Los Angeles commuter towns of the San Fernando Valley, but in time the term became more broadly applied to any woman or girl -- primarily in the United States and Canada -- who engendered the associated affects of ditziness, airheadedness, and/or greater interest in conspicuous consumption than intellectual or personal accomplishment.

Sociolect

A sociolect associated with valley girls termed "Valleyspeak" arose in the San Fernando valley in the 1980s. Qualifiers such as "like", "whatever", "way", "as if!", "super", "totally" and "tubular" (a surfing term) are interjected in the middle of phrases and sentences as emphasizers. Narrative sentences were often spoken as if questions using a high rising terminal. Heavily accented words were spoken with high variation in pitch combined with very open or nasal vowel sounds.

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Valley Girl (disambiguation)

A valley girl is an affluent girl living in the San Fernando Valley.

Valley Girl may also refer to:

Film and TV

  • Valley Girl (film), a 1983 film starring Nicolas Cage
  • "Valley Girls", a 2009 Gossip Girl episode
  • The Valley Girl Show, a talk show hosted by Jesse Draper
  • Valley Girl, a character in The Catherine Tate Show
  • Valley Girl, a character on Crashbox

    • Music

  • "Valley Girl" (song), a song by Frank Zappa
  • "Valley Girls", song by Pauly Shore from Future of America 1994
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    Valley Girl (film)

    Valley Girl is a 1983 American romantic comedy film directed by Martha Coolidge, and stars Nicolas Cage, Deborah Foreman, Michelle Meyrink, Elizabeth Daily, Cameron Dye and Michael Bowen.

    The American release of Valley Girl was April 29, 1983. The plot is loosely based on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

    Plot

    Julie Richman (Foreman) is a Valley Girl who seems to have it all: good looks, popularity, and a handsome Valley dude boyfriend, Tommy (Bowen), but she is having second thoughts about her relationship with the arrogant and selfish Tommy. At the end of a shopping trip with her friends, Loryn (Daily), Stacey (Heidi Holicker), and Suzi (Meyrink), Julie runs into Tommy and breaks up with him. Later that day at the beach, Julie trades shy glances with a young man in the distance.

    That night, at a party at Suzi's house, Julie locks eyes with Randy (Cage), a Hollywood punk who has crashed the party with his friend, Fred (Dye). They hit it off well, especially after Julie learns that Randy was the young man at the beach earlier. Tommy is jealous, and tries to bed Loryn. He fails and gets his cronies to eject Randy and Fred from the party. Undaunted, Randy sneaks back into the house, and hides in an upstairs bathroom shower. Randy waits in the shower for Julie to enter the bathroom as various partygoers come and go, talking about and trying to have sex, and doing drugs. When Julie eventually does enter, Randy convinces her to leave the party with him. Julie brings a very reluctant Stacey along for the ride with Randy and Fred. While at Randy's favorite Hollywood nightclub, Julie and Randy rapidly grow closer as Stacey continually rebuffs Fred's advances.

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    An Evening With Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart

    The Best Band on Broadway the Hard Way US Tour

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    The History and Collected Improvisations of Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention

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    Live in Holland & Elsewhere

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    The Godfather in Full Metal Jacket

    The Untouchables

    Trick or Treat

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    Pig's'n' Repugnant

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    Erdbeben in München

    Chalk Pie

    1981-11-17: Zappa in New York '81

    1984-09-01: Saratoga Performing Arts Centre, Saratoga, NY, USA

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    Died: 1993-12-04

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    Tonight though I'll tell you one thing about these New York crowds
    Some of them, they get too carried away you know because they think Frank Zappa is such a mad man
    You know they come here to see him go crazy or something you know
    They don't realise there's notes are involved you know
    I told you the first time I met you, you remember that what I said.
    You want to be in the band!
    No well, I wouldn't do that to you man, I would try out for the band but I wouldn't ...
    I'll try you out
    I don't sing
    What do you mean you don't sing, I've heard you sing




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