Zappa Archives - Yellow Advertiser

Frank. Not just any composer - an important one

Film Leisure Reviews

So much more than a moustache

04/12/202004/12/2020 Mick Ferris Alex Winter, documentary, leisure, Zappa

ZAPPA (15) 2 hours 7 minutes A few months before his death from cancer in 1993, Frank Zappa was asked

1921: Roscoe “Fatty Arbuckle” (left) and Virginia Rappe

News Today in History

It happened today – this day in history – December 4

04/12/202028/01/2021 Mick Ferris Balfour, Bonnie Prince Charlie, December 4, Dungannon, Elvis, Fatty Arbuckle, Gemini 7, history, Led Zeppelin, Omar Khayyám, Reagan, Sartre, smog, The Observer, Trump, Vatican, Zappa

1123: Death of Persian poet, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher Omar Khayyám. 1154: Nicholas Breakspear is elected Pope Adrian IV, the

1934: John Dillinger

It happened today – this day in history – May 15

15/05/202014/05/2020 Mick Ferris Alabama, Boleyn, Dillinger, George III, Gretton, history, Kepler, May 15, Palestine, Paul McCartney, spurs, Wallace, Zappa

1213: King John names Stephen Langton as Archbishop of Canterbury. 1248: Archbishop Konrad von Hochstaden lays the cornerstone for Cologne

1942: Glenn Miller

It happened today – on this day in history – February 10

10/02/202009/02/2020 Mick Ferris Brahms, February 10, Halley, Haydn, history, Miller, Spector, Susann, Tchaikovsky, Trotsky, Zappa

1098: Crusaders defeat Prince Redwan of Aleppo at Antioch. 1355: The St. Scholastica’s Day riot breaks out in Oxford, leaving