Utilizing potent TV interviews and many forgotten performances from his 30-year career, we are immersed into Frank Zappa’s world while experiencing two distinct facets of his complex character. At once Zappa was both a charismatic composer who reveled in the joy of performing and, in the next moment, a fiercely intelligent and brutally honest interviewee whose convictions only got stronger as his career ascended.
Frank Zappa
Theodore Bikel
Arlene Francis
Keith Moon
Steve Allen
Jimmy Carl Black
Pierre Boulez
Thomas Braden
Napoleon Murphy Brock
Paul Carman
Katie Couric
Mike Douglas
George Duke
Václav Havel
Angel
Chuck Ash
Arthur Barrow
Adrian Belew
Tom Brokaw
Wally Bruner
Del Casher
Vinnie Colaiuta
Connie Chung
Robin Denselow
Aynsley Dunbar
Ensemble Modern
Roy Estrada
Bruce Fowler
Tom Fowler
Walt Fowler
Jamie Gangel
Bunk Gardner
Tipper Gore
Judy Gridley
Robert Hager
Paula Fickes Hawkins
Ralph Humphrey
Johnny Jacobs
Howard Kaylan
Mike Keneally
Martin Lickert
June Lockhart
London Symphony Orchestra
John Lofton
Ed Mann
Tommy Mars
Bobby Martin
Kurt McGettrick
Keith Moon
Kent Nagano
Janet Neville-Ferguson
Robert D. Novak
Lucy Offerall
Jean-Luc Ponty
Don Preston
Gene Rayburn
Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra
Peter Rundel
Soupy Sales
Euclid James 'Motorhead' Sherwood
Stanley Siegel
Jeff Simmons
Harry Smith
John Smothers
Ringo Starr
Chester Thompson
Scott Thunes
Arthur Dyer Tripp III
Ian Underwood
Ruth Underwood
Mark Volman
Chad Wackerman
Denny Walley
Ray White
Ike Willis
Albert Au Wing Kuen
Peter Wolf
Gail Zappa
Allan Zavod