Zappa Frank

Jimmy Carl Black was 70

Tony Palmer's magisterial documentary series, unseen since the late 70s

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Legendary Burritos pedal steel player dies

Coyne, Drozd and Fridmann return with the next psychedelic episode.

Festival Excess - Michael Bonner reports from Utah

Reprised fun and frolics from Fee, Prairie and the girls

In 1968, Raybert productions—a Hollywood hotbed of drugged-out '60s fornication—saw fit to hand would-be-Fellini Bob Rafelson The Monkees as a vehicle for his auteurist debut. This was the result.

Zappa's late-'70s antics and muso wanking redeemed only by sexy claymation

Also released this month... Shining like a beacon in the depressing pre-Christmas landscape of mouldy old video collections and dodgy concert films is Jane's Addiction's Three Days SANCTUARY Filmed by Carter Smith and Kevin Ford on the band's 1997 Relapse tour, it's a fully-realised piece of rock cinema that dramatically transcends the limitations of your average tour documentary.