SIGNED BY MOONUNIT HERSELF - SO BITCHIN'!
For Moon Unit, daughter of musician Frank Zappa and his 'manager', Gail, processing a life so unique, so punctuated by the whims of creative urges, the tastes of popular culture and the calculus of celebrity has at times been eviscerating.
Born in 1967 into a family marked out as music royalty thanks to the acknowledged genius of Frank, Moon Unit Zappa's life has been utterly extraordinary. She became a child star aged 14, after her accidental international hit single, 'Valley Girl' (recorded with her father), turned her into a reluctant celebrity in her own right. But what are the consequences of growing up in a family who spend most of their time naked arguing about sexual/extra-marital liaisons and practising white magic in a free-for-all state of nonconformist, virtuoso abandon?
Earth to Moon is a reckoning with self-esteem, the ghosts of the past and a mother and a father who, in the process of leaving their mark upon the world, scarred their first daughter on home soil. Brutally self-deprecating and funny as hell, it belies a rose-tinted perspective on the 70s and 80s West Coast American scene, from within the belly of the beast of the rock and roll world.
Size: 163 x 242mm (hardback with dust jacket)
Pages: 368 (25 b&w integrated photos from author’s personal archive)
Publisher: White Rabbit
