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Freak Out!

My Life with Frank Zappa

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Freak Out!

By: Pauline Butcher
Narrated by: Emma Gregory
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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 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.

“The book describes a formative time in the life of an innovative musical artist, which Zappa most certainly was. But it also captures a particularly intense experience of a very brief, yet enormously influential, period in the evolution of western womanhood.” THE GUARDIAN©2011 Pauline Butcher (P)2020 W. F. Howes Ltd Entertainment & Celebrities Music Women Celebrity
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a great memoir of a unique time, relationship and man, told with vigour and forthright honestly, a really entertaining read.

fantastic insight

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Very interesting read.. I used to listen to Zappa in the 70's and always thought he was a typical Rock'n Roller - how wrong I was !

A Great Insight

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Really loved this book- I’m not even a Frank Zappa fan or familiar with his music but I adored this story of Pauline and wished I could hear more after she stayed in london. Very touching and charming anecdotes and insights in to the Californian 60s.
Fantastic narrator as well
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Wonderful

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Pauline meeting Frank, working for him and being inspired to get educated and do her own thing is a beautiful tale. Lots here for Zappa fans, showing Frank in a much more intimate light than anything else I've ever read about him. Written by someone who was right inside the Zappa family bubble, I find it fascinating, the way in which pure chance (in this case getting to the phone first), can change a life so completely. Thanks for that Pauline, I really enjoyed it.

What a great listen.

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I don’t get other reviews slagging this book off. I really enjoyed it. She loved him that’s for sure

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