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Frank Zappa and Moon Unit

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 "UNIT" is one of the stars in the "[[One Size Fits All]]" (1975) "[[:Category:One Size Fits All (The List)|universe]]". As a 14-year old Moon contributed vocals to ''"[[Valley Girl]]"'' (she was credited for her improvised monologue) from ''"[[Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch]]"''. The single unexpectedly became the biggest hit of Zappa's career and Moon famous for a while.
-Moon was also a guest vocalist on the albums ''"[[You Are What You Is]]”, "[[Them Or Us]]"'' (on the track ''"[[Ya Hozna]]")'' and on ''"[[Frank Zappa Meets The Mothers Of Prevention]]".'' She can be heard on seven tracks of "[[Civilization Phaze III]]". She received thanks for their ''"very special but no less significant contributions"'' in [[The Yellow Shark]] liner notes.  <ref>http://donlope.net/fz/notes/The_Yellow_Shark.html#Acknowledgements</ref>
+Moon was also a guest vocalist on the albums ''"[[You Are What You Is]]”, "[[Them Or Us]]"'' (on the track ''"[[Ya Hozna]]")'' and on ''"[[Frank Zappa Meets The Mothers Of Prevention]]".'' She can be heard on seven tracks of "[[Civilization Phaze III]]". She received thanks for their ''"very special but no less significant contributions"'' in [[The Yellow Shark]] liner notes.  <ref>http://donlope.net/fz/notes/The_Yellow_Shark.html#Acknowledgements</ref> She, her husband Paul Doucette and daughter Mathilda Plum are also mentioned and thanked in the liner notes of ''[[The MOFO Project/Object (Fazedooh)|The MOFO Project/Object]]'' (2006) album. <ref>http://donlope.net/fz/notes/The_MOFO_Project_Object.html#Contributors</ref>
 She is also referenced in ''[[A Few Moments With Brother A. West]]'': ''"I ask you, Mr. Frank Zappa, what kind of man can name a child Moon Unit?"''
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 [[Category:The Real Frank Zappa Book (The List)|Zappa, Moon]]
 [[Category:The Yellow Shark (The List)|Zappa, Moon]]

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 "UNIT" is one of the stars in the "[[One Size Fits All]]" (1975) "[[:Category:One Size Fits All (The List)|universe]]". As a 14-year old Moon contributed vocals to ''"[[Valley Girl]]"'' (she was credited for her improvised monologue) from ''"[[Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch]]"''. The single unexpectedly became the biggest hit of Zappa's career and Moon famous for a while.
-Moon was also a guest vocalist on the albums ''"[[You Are What You Is]]”, "[[Them Or Us]]"'' (on the track ''"[[Ya Hozna]]")'' and on ''"[[Frank Zappa Meets The Mothers Of Prevention]]".'' She can be heard on seven tracks of "[[Civilization Phaze III]]". She is also referenced in ''[[A Few Moments With Brother A. West]]'': ''"I ask you, Mr. Frank Zappa, what kind of man can name a child Moon Unit?"''
+Moon was also a guest vocalist on the albums ''"[[You Are What You Is]]”, "[[Them Or Us]]"'' (on the track ''"[[Ya Hozna]]")'' and on ''"[[Frank Zappa Meets The Mothers Of Prevention]]".'' She can be heard on seven tracks of "[[Civilization Phaze III]]". She received thanks for their ''"very special but no less significant contributions"'' in [[The Yellow Shark]] liner notes.  <ref>http://donlope.net/fz/notes/The_Yellow_Shark.html#Acknowledgements</ref>
 In 1995 she posthumously [[Zappa Inducted Into The Hall Of Fame|inducted Frank Zappa into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame]], in the presence of [[Lou Reed]].
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 '''Frank Zappa''': ''"The popularity was in direct proportion to the life cycle of that particular hit single. There was a mysterious fever that surrounded "Valley Girl" that had nothing to do with reality. It complicated matters around here because I have my own schedule for interviews and all the rest of the bullshit that goes with the business and then suddenly she had the same thing, too. I don't drive, she didn't drive at the time, and my wife drives in a carpool. She's a minor and had to be escorted everywhere. It made things real complicated – and last year she had a part in "National Lampoon's European Vacation", a film shot in Rome. It started out to be an eight-day shoot, but Gail ended up sitting around with her for about a month. It just makes things a mess, but Moon will be of age pretty soon and she'll be able to go out and do stuff on her own."'' - Frank Zappa in ''[[Lynching With Bonzai: Frank Zappa]]'', Interview with Mr. Bonzai, September 1985.
 ==See also==
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 [[Category:One Size Fits All (The List)|Zappa, Moon]]
 [[Category:The Real Frank Zappa Book (The List)|Zappa, Moon]]

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	==Frank Zappa and Moon Unit==		==Frank Zappa and Moon Unit==
		+	Zappa cited Moon among his ''"favorite other stuff"'' in ''[[Data For Sensitive or Critical-sensitive Position]]'' (1968).

	Zappa cut all ties with [[Larry Fischer\|Wild Man Fischer]] once he threw a bottle at Moon Unit, even though he missed.		Zappa cut all ties with [[Larry Fischer\|Wild Man Fischer]] once he threw a bottle at Moon Unit, even though he missed.

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 On 6 November 2010 she appeared as a guest artist during the [[Zappa Plays Zappa]] concert in London, where she performed ''Valley Girl'' live, a song Zappa never performed live in concert.
 ==Her own works==
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 * [[Nicolas Slonimsky]] named his cat ''"Grody To The Max"'', based on a quote from Moon's lyrics to ''"Valley Girl"''.
 * She is mentioned in [[Irvine Welsh]]'s novel ''Trainspotting''.
-* In the film ''"Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me" (1999)'' the character Dr Evil says: "The moon unit will be divided into two divisions: Moon Unit Alpha and ''Moon Unit Zappa''."
+* In the film ''"Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me" (1999)'' the character Dr Evil says: ''"The moon unit will be divided into two divisions: Moon Unit Alpha and ''Moon Unit Zappa''."''
-* She is mentioned in [[My Brother Is an Italian Mother]] (Jazz & Pop, 1968, [[Bobby Zappa|C. R. Zappa]]), ''"performing body functions in time with the music"''.
+* She is mentioned in ''[[My Brother Is an Italian Mother]]'' (Jazz & Pop, 1968, [[Bobby Zappa|C. R. Zappa]]), ''"performing body functions in time with the music"''.
 ==Zappa about Moon Unit==

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	[[File:Frank Zappa and Moon Unit at the piano.jpg\|500px\|thumb\|right\|Moon Unit and Frank Zappa, photographed in the mid-1980s.]]		[[File:Frank Zappa and Moon Unit at the piano.jpg\|500px\|thumb\|right\|Moon Unit and Frank Zappa, photographed in the mid-1980s.]]

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 * [https://www.united-mutations.com/z/moon_zappa.htm United Mutations page.]
-[[Category:Zappa Family|Zappa]]
+[[Category:Zappa Family|Zappa, Moon]]
-[[Category:Bandmembers|Zappa]]
+[[Category:Bandmembers|Zappa, Moon]]
-[[Category:Singers|Zappa]]
+[[Category:Singers|Zappa, Moon]]
 [[Category:Painters|Zappa]]
-[[Category:Actors|Zappa]]
+[[Category:Actors|Zappa, Moon]]
 [[Category:Them Or Us (The List)|Zappa]]
-[[Category:One Size Fits All (The List)|Zappa]]
+[[Category:One Size Fits All (The List)|Zappa, Moon]]
-[[Category:The Real Frank Zappa Book (The List)|Zappa]]
+[[Category:The Real Frank Zappa Book (The List)|Zappa, Moon]]

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 Moon was also a guest vocalist on the albums ''"[[You Are What You Is]]”, "[[Them Or Us]]"'' (on the track ''"[[Ya Hozna]]")'' and on ''"[[Frank Zappa Meets The Mothers Of Prevention]]".'' She can be heard on seven tracks of "[[Civilization Phaze III]]". She is also referenced in ''[[A Few Moments With Brother A. West]]'': ''"I ask you, Mr. Frank Zappa, what kind of man can name a child Moon Unit?"''
-In 1994 she posthumously [[Zappa Inducted Into The Hall Of Fame|inducted Frank Zappa into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame]], in the presence of [[Lou Reed]].
+In 1995 she posthumously [[Zappa Inducted Into The Hall Of Fame|inducted Frank Zappa into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame]], in the presence of [[Lou Reed]].
 ==Other contributions==
-Moon also appeared in Dweezil's video ''"[[My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama (The Album)|My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama]]"'' and sang on his albums ''[[Havin' A Bad Day]] (1986)'' and ''[[Confessions]]'' (1991). Moon, Kyle Richard and [[Lala Sloatman]] appeared in a failed pilot for a show ("Bunny Bunny Bunny") that FZ described in "[[Video From Hell]]" as ''"an Ionesco sort of post-punk sitcom".'' Moon created paintings for the [[Gabor Csupo]]/[[Bret Crain]] gallery inside the Lumpy Gravy restaurant in L.A.
+Moon also appeared in Dweezil's video ''"[[My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama (The Album)|My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama]]"'' and sang on his albums ''[[Havin' A Bad Day]] (1986)'' and ''[[Confessions]]'' (1991). Moon, Kyle Richard and [[Lala Sloatman]] appeared in a failed pilot for a show ("Bunny Bunny Bunny") that FZ described in "[[Video From Hell]]" as ''"an Ionesco sort of post-punk sitcom".'' Moon created paintings for the [[Gabor Csupo]]/Bret Crain gallery inside the Lumpy Gravy restaurant in L.A.
 She sang on Peter Stuart's ''Propeller'' (2002), [[Gene Simmons]]' ''***Hole'' (2004) and Kip Winger's ''Songs From The Ocean Floor'' (2006).

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 '''Moon Unit Zappa'''  ([[New York]], September 28, 1967) is Frank and [[Gail Zappa]]'s oldest child and daughter. She is the sister of [[Dweezil Zappa]], [[Ahmet Zappa]] and [[Diva Zappa]]. She is active as a singer, actress, writer and director.
-Moon Unit is married to drummer [[Paul Doucette]]. Their daughter, Mathilda Plum Doucette, was born on [[December 21]], 2004 (sharing the same birth date as Frank Zappa).
+Moon Unit was married to drummer [[Wikipedia:Paul Doucette|Paul Doucette]] from 2002 to 2014. Their daughter, Mathilda Plum Doucette, was born on [[December 21]], 2004 (sharing the same birth date as Frank Zappa).
 ==Frank Zappa and Moon Unit==

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-Zappa cut all ties with [[Wild Man Fischer]] once he threw a bottle at Moon Unit, even though he missed.
+Zappa cut all ties with [[Larry Fischer|Wild Man Fischer]] once he threw a bottle at Moon Unit, even though he missed.
 She and Dweezil can be seen as young children in the Dutch documentary ''[[Frank Zappa (1971 Documentary)|Frank Zappa]]'' by [[Roelof Kiers]]. .