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Jon Lord: Rest In Rock

Gary Pig Gold, Roctober, 27 July 2012

"JUST WHAT the world needs: Another record company." And with those typically snide words, on the 7th day of February, 1968, Bizarre Productions was duly incorporated, and two hundred shares of no par value common stock issued in the State of New York, thereby creating the first of several record companies Frank Zappa would oversee during his most colorful life and career.

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