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* ''[[Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy]]'': ''"I had a Roger Daltrey cape on."''
 
* ''[[Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy]]'': ''"I had a Roger Daltrey cape on."''
 
* ''[[Titties 'n Beer]]'' and ''[[Punky's Whips]]'': ''"More fluid than [[Jeff Beck]]"''.
 
* ''[[Titties 'n Beer]]'' and ''[[Punky's Whips]]'': ''"More fluid than [[Jeff Beck]]"''.
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* ''[[Manx Needs Women]]'': The title refers to citizens of the  Isle of Man.
 
* ''[[Dead Girls Of London]]''
 
* ''[[Dead Girls Of London]]''
 
* ''[[Packard Goose]]'': ''"All the rock'n roll writers are the worst kind of sleaze/selling punk rock like some new kind of English disease."''
 
* ''[[Packard Goose]]'': ''"All the rock'n roll writers are the worst kind of sleaze/selling punk rock like some new kind of English disease."''
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* ''[[The Handsome Cabin Boy]]'' by [[Ewan MacColl]] is covered on ''[[The Lost Episodes]]''.
 
* ''[[The Handsome Cabin Boy]]'' by [[Ewan MacColl]] is covered on ''[[The Lost Episodes]]''.
  
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==Concerts & other locations==
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==Zappa concerts in the United Kingdom==
 
* [[67/10/ London UK The Speakeasy]]
 
* [[67/10/ London UK The Speakeasy]]
 
* [[67/09/23 London UK Royal Albert Hall]]
 
* [[67/09/23 London UK Royal Albert Hall]]
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* [[84/09/24-25 London UK Hammersmith Odeon]]
 
* [[84/09/24-25 London UK Hammersmith Odeon]]
 
* [[88/04/18-19 London UK Wembley Arena]]
 
* [[88/04/18-19 London UK Wembley Arena]]
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* [[BBC Symphony Orchestra]]
 
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* [[The Barbican]]
 
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* [[Bayswater]]
 
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* [[Charing Cross]]
 
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* [[Edgware Road]]
 
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* [[Embankment]]
 
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* [[Hammersmith Odeon]]
 
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* [[Harley Street Clinic]]
 
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* [[London]]
 
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* [[London Symphony Orchestra (The Orchestra)]]
 
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* [[Marylebone]]
 
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* [[Queensway]]
 
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* [[The Rainbow Theatre Incident]]
 
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* [[Royal Albert Hall]]
 
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* [[The Speakeasy Club, UK]]
 
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* [[Spring Garden St.]]
 
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* [[Waterloo]] station
 
  
 
==Zappa associates from the United Kingdom==
 
==Zappa associates from the United Kingdom==
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* [[London Symphony Orchestra (The Orchestra)]]
 
* [[London Symphony Orchestra (The Orchestra)]]
 
* [[Keith Moon]]
 
* [[Keith Moon]]
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* [[Music For Nations]]
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* [[Angus O'Reilly]]
 
* [[Tony Palmer]]
 
* [[Tony Palmer]]
 
* [[Pink Floyd]]
 
* [[Pink Floyd]]
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==Classical composers, conductors and musicians==
 
==Classical composers, conductors and musicians==
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* [[BBC Symphony Orchestra]]
 
* [[Edward Elgar]]
 
* [[Edward Elgar]]
 
* [[Cecil Forsyth]]
 
* [[Cecil Forsyth]]
 
* [[Gustav Holst]]
 
* [[Gustav Holst]]
 
* [[Henry Purcell]]
 
* [[Henry Purcell]]
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* [[London Symphony Orchestra (The Orchestra)]]
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* [[Royal Philharmonic Orchestra]]
  
 
==Jazz musicians==
 
==Jazz musicians==
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* [[Fila Brazillia]]
 
* [[Fila Brazillia]]
 
* [[The Flying Lizards]]
 
* [[The Flying Lizards]]
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* [[Fred Frith]]
 
* [[Gentle Giant]]
 
* [[Gentle Giant]]
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* [[Gerry And The Holograms]]
 
* [[Alex Harvey]]
 
* [[Alex Harvey]]
 
* [[Henry Cow]]
 
* [[Henry Cow]]
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* [[John McLaughlin]]
 
* [[John McLaughlin]]
 
* [[Freddie Mercury]]
 
* [[Freddie Mercury]]
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* [[MF Doom]] (born in London, moved to Long Island, New York)
 
* [[George Michael]]
 
* [[George Michael]]
 
* [[Keith Moon]]
 
* [[Keith Moon]]
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* [[Lenny Henry]]
 
* [[Lenny Henry]]
 
* [[Nigel Leigh]]
 
* [[Nigel Leigh]]
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* [[Ida Lupino]]
 
* [[Simon McBurney]]
 
* [[Simon McBurney]]
 
* [[Tony Palmer]]
 
* [[Tony Palmer]]
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* [[Robert Shelton]]
 
* [[Robert Shelton]]
 
* [[Neil Slaven]]
 
* [[Neil Slaven]]
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* [[Dylan Thomas]]
 
* [[Ben Watson]]
 
* [[Ben Watson]]
 
* [[Irvine Welsh]]
 
* [[Irvine Welsh]]
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==Film, radio and television==
 
==Film, radio and television==
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* [[Alice in Wonderland]]
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* ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]''
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* [[An American Werewolf In London]]
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* ''[[An American Werewolf In London]]''
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* [[BBC Television Tribute]], produced by [[Nigel Leigh]]
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* ''[[BBC Television Tribute]]'', produced by [[Nigel Leigh]]
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* [[Dead Of Night]]
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* ''[[Dead Of Night]]''
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* [[Fraudulent DJ]]
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* ''[[Fraudulent DJ]]''
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* [[Gorgo]]
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* ''[[Gorgo]]''
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* [[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]
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* ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]''
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* [[Star Special]]
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* ''[[Star Special]]''
  
 
==Interviews==
 
==Interviews==
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* [[Meet the Boss Mother sussing out Britain...]]
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* ''[[Meet the Boss Mother sussing out Britain...]]''
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==Locations==
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* [[Hammersmith Odeon]]
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* [[Harley Street Clinic]]
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* [[Liverpool]]
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* [[London]]
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* [[Manchester]]
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* [[Pinewood Studios]]
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* [[Royal Albert Hall]]
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* [[The Speakeasy Club, UK]]
  
 
==Miscellaneous==
 
==Miscellaneous==
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* [[Punk]]
 
* [[Punk]]
 
* [[The Queen]]
 
* [[The Queen]]
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* [[The Rainbow Theatre Incident]]
 
* [[Margaret Thatcher]]
 
* [[Margaret Thatcher]]
  
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[[Category:Countries]]
 
[[Category:Countries]]
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[[Category:Islands]]

Latest revision as of 14:00, 5 August 2026


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"Lord, have mercy on the people in England, for the terrible food these people must eat." - Opening lines of Strictly Genteel.


Frank Zappa: "I hate playing in England. I don't mind playing in Europe too much. The audiences on the Continent are pretty good. I can't stand this place though. It's the people. (...) Let's not call it the audiences, just the people. (...) Maybe it's the venues that we've been playing because the behaviour patterns seem to alter with different venues. I noticed that there was a difference between the type of audience that you get at Wembley Empire Pool and the audience you get at the Odeon Hammersmith. But the thing that's always depressed me about the English audience is that they're oriented towards dressing up and queuing up and anything in between that is irrelevant. It's very hard to get any kind of feedback from the audience in a place like the Odeon Hammersmith because the behaviour pattern is just so reserved. You definitely get the impression that you're there to perform. Maybe there's a different kind of response for other kinds of music here but there's two places in the world where I'd say we have the worst audiences – London and Los Angeles. They're very similar in how jaded they are. But the response in what we do just about everyplace else is completely different."

And yet they seem keen enough to come along. You sold out six shows last time around.

Frank Zappa: "God knows why. I mean, even when they're clapping it doesn't feel right to me. It's like they like you for the wrong reason. There's such a big difference between what happens when you go on stage in a theatre the same size in New York City or Atlanta, Georgia, versus what happens here. It's just a weird feeling ... even though they speak English." - Frank Zappa - I Hate Playing In England, Hugh Fielder, Sounds, 9 September 1978. [1]

Articles about Great Britain, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

Albums and tracks

Zappa concerts in the United Kingdom

Zappa associates from the United Kingdom

Classical composers, conductors and musicians

Jazz musicians

Folk musicians

Rock and pop artists

Actors, comedians, film directors, producers and documentary makers

Writers, journalists, critics, magazines

Visual artists

Film, radio and television

Interviews

Locations

Miscellaneous

Fansites

References

  1. ↑ https://www.afka.net/Articles/1978-09_Sounds.htm
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