In August, released another archival album, Weasels Ripped My Flesh, which charted | In September, he launched his first world tour under his own name, playing in the U |
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After a two-week stint in Montreal, they returned to California, where Fielder left the group in February | Zappa toured Europe and Japan in the spring of 1979, then returned to the U |
The song peaked at number 32 on September 11, 1982, making it the most successful single of Zappa's career.
The Synclavier freed Zappa from the technical limitations and, in some cases, the objections of live musicians, especially classical musicians, and he turned to it increasingly from this point on | Hot Rats, the second album to be credited to Frank Zappa, was released on October 10, 1969 |
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Their performance at the Royal Festival Hall in London on October 25, 1968, was released in 1991 as the album Ahead of Their Time | In March, Zappa and Herb Cohen announced that they were setting up their own record label, , to be distributed by the Reprise Records subsidiary of Warner Bros |
It's hard to say what might have come of Zappa's trade efforts with the former Soviet Union and the former Iron Curtain countries, where he was something of a cultural hero.