About A Girl
Bringing women out from the shadows of music history. Familiar characters, new perspectives.
Gail Zappa & Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa ruled his kingdom of freaks, a prolific and obsessed man with many plans. But Gail was undeniably the woman behind the man, a role to which she felt duty-bound, and when Frank passed away, there was a new freak queen on the scene.
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