Difference between revisions of "New York"

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Most populous city in the United States of America, birthplace of Moon Zappa.

The Statue Of Liberty is depicted on the cover of We're Only In It For The Money.
King Kong
The Story Of Willie The Pimp: "The Lido Hotel, this perverted hotel in Coney Island"
Bwana Dik: "My God, Madge... you voluptuous New York City slit..."
What Kind Of Girl Do You Think We Are?: "This is the swingin'est place in New York City."
Billy The Mountain': "Yes! They were going to New York! (...) Please to New York! Fly to New York!"
Camarillo Brillo: "And every cricket who had chorused by the bush in Buffalo."
Some of the constellations on the star map of One Size Fits All refer to parts of the New York subway system: 125th, Houston, Lenox, Spring Garden St., Canal and Yellow. Another constellation is Borscht, a Jewish neighborhood in New York City, named after the vegetable soup, and Al Capone, a gangster born in Brooklyn.
Zappa In New York
Canarsie (location in Brooklyn)
Wistful Wit A Fist-Full: "In de suburbean out-skirt of ol' Manhattan."
Broadway The Hard Way
- Any Kind Of Pain: "Broadway the Hard Way, ladies and gentlemen! You are the girl somebody invented in a grim little office on Madison Avenue. (...) She dines with actors and Wall Street characters."
- Planet Of The Baritone Women: "Meanwhile on Wall Street".
Zappa's annual Halloween concerts were held in New York.

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 ==People born in New York==
 * [[Steve Allen]]
+* [[Joan Baez]]
 * [[Lenny Bruce]]
+* [[Teddy Bunn]]
 * [[Aaron Copland]]
 * [[Robert Craft]]
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 * [[Tony Bennett]]
 * [[Elliott Carter]]
+* [[George Gershwin]]
+* [[Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five]]
+* [[Robert Gluck]]
 * [[Bob Guy]]
 * [[Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein|Oscar Hammerstein II]]
 * [[Lorenz Hart]]
+* [[John Tasker Howard]]
 * [[Mike Keneally]]
 * [[Loeb & Leopold]]
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 * [[Gary Lucas]]
 * [[Harpo Marx]]
+* [[MF Doom]] (born in London, but raised in Long Beach, New York)
 * [[Meredith Monk]]
 * [[Moondog]] (born in Marysville, Kansas, moved to New York City)
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 * [[Sight After Dark]]
 * [[Phil Spector]]
+* [[Cecil Taylor]]
+* [[Tommy Tedesco]]
 * [[Ian Underwood]]
 * [[Ruth Underwood]]
 * [[Steve Vai]]
+* [[Frank Vignola]]
 * [[Wolfman Jack]]
 * [[Moon Zappa]]