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No one could predict the winding path of Frank Zappa s discography, where satirical rock songs brushed up against avant-garde orchestrations. So even if some stuffier fans cringed seeing their king of weird guest-star on mid- 80s crime-drama smash
Miami Vice, others saw a hilariously fitting detour in a career defined by them. Absurdity and surprise were simply colors on Zappa s massive canvas.
It s not like the
Freak Out! maestro was averse to mainstream TV: In 1963, before he was even famous, Zappa appeared on variety program
The Steve Allen Show, showing how ordinary objects like bicycles could be played as percussion instruments. He later composed a piece, The Big Squeeze, for a Luden s Cough Drops commercial, made a cameo on the Monkees TV show and hosted a 1976 episode of
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