People like Frank Zappa were amazing for us Brits.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My dad was a big Frank Zappa fan, so I remember listening to a lot of Frank Zappa. Girls do not like Frank Zappa.
Frank Zappa... was Beethoven for insane rock guys.
People like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, stick things together looking for friction and energy. They were more like playwrights; they invented characters and wrote a life around them.
We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of Invention and I think a lot of those songs were complex.
I like Simon Cowell - look at how many great artists have come out of the U.K. because of him.
I've always loved Def Leppard, ever since I was little.
On the sets, Ali Zafar was extremely entertaining... he would just start singing out of the blue. It was just great!
The only thing the Pop Artists had in common is that we all had been commercial artists in some manner. Lichtenstein was a draftsman; I was a billboard painter, but we didn't work together. I didn't meet Andy Warhol until 1964.
It feels like Radiohead are famous, but that no one knows who we are. Which is brilliant, really.
The hardest and worst interview that I have ever done was with Frank Zappa.