In 2013 – 20 years after his death – Frank Zappa’s widow Gail and son Dweezil told Prog about the life and legacy of the musician/composer who embraced the avant-garde while paying homage to early rock’n’roll, and mocked the mainstream while indulging in his own scatological silliness.
In 1967 Tony Palmer was an up-and-coming BBC documentary director. Four years earlier he’d given John Lennon an incognito tour of Cambridge, and the Beatle had written down his phone number on a slip of paper and said, “If you’re ever in London, give me a call.” At the resulting dinner, Lennon handed over another piece of paper.
