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The Mothers Are Dead, But Zappa's Still Very Much Alive

Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 25 October 1969

THE MOTHERS are dead. Killed by a public apathy towards a style of music which the rest of the world will catch up with maybe around 1975.

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