Black

VIRGIL [8-10 / 15º-(-30º)], one of the constellations in the "One Size Fits All" (1975) "universe", has a star named "Black".

Note that two other colors on the One Size Fits All map are Orange and Yellow.

References to black in Frank Zappa's work

• Trouble Every Day: "I'm not black, but there's a lots of times I wish I could say I'm not white."
• White Ugliness: "Are you sure it wasn't w-white, I mean, uh, black, or..."
• Let's Make The Water Turn Black
• Willie The Pimp: "Pair of khaki pants, with my shoe shined black"
• Would You Go All The Way?: "His new white socks, 'n his pants all black."
• Latex Solar Beef and Stick It Out: "Hear the steaming hot black screaming iridescent naugahyde python gleaming steam roller!"
• Strictly Genteel: "Help the black man"
• Sam With The Showing Scalp Flat Top: "The black juice came out on a hard shelled chin. I used to fiddle with my back feet music for a black onyx."
• Cheepnis: "The zipper from The Black Lagoon" (a reference to the monster movie Creature From The Black Lagoon)
• Dickie's Such An Asshole: "He's got a conscience black as sin!"
• Man With The Woman Head: "Four slender bones with rings and nails endured the weight of a hard fast black rubber cigarette holder"
• Black Napkins
• The Black Page
• On the cover of Joe's Garage, Zappa wears black face paint.
• Dumb All Over: "Dumb all over / black 'n white"
• Jumbo Go Away: "Or your eye will get black."
• Mudd Club: "In a black sack dress with nine inch heels"
• Goblin Girl: "She's black 'n' green/ Raggedy black"
• Charlie's Enormous Mouth: "Charlie's disgusting brain, well, it's all black"
• The Dangerous Kitchen: "The bananas are black"
• The Radio Is Broken: In the black and white movies"
• We're Turning Again: "Black light bedrooms on Long Island"
• Why Don't You Like Me?: "I'll be black".
• Sunshine Of Your Love: "Ain't you the man in black?"
• Black Beauty
• This Is All Wrong: "Oh, and their tight black pants"
• Alley Cat: "Fluttering like a little black bird, yeah"
• The Pleated Gazelle: "Another thrilling view of a black and starch-y nun suit"
• The Red Throbber: "so Fred & Charlie come over and drag the sonofabitch away / Black card & all / If you get a black card when you're goin' through Customs"

See also

• Jimmy Carl Black
• Black Sabbath
• Black Tongue
• The Black-Outs
• The Long Black Veil
• Orange
• Paint It Black
• Yellow