Andrew Greenaway
Andrew Greenaway is a British writer and website curator. From 1988 on he wrote articles for the Zappa fanzine T'mershi Duween, published by Fred Tomsett. He wrote a monthly column, From A to Z for the Dweezil Zappa Fan Club Magazine, published by Cindy Zeuli. He was also active as a writer and interviewer for Society Pages and the Z-Zine. [1]. Greenaway hosts the Zappa fan website www.idiotbastard.com, of which the logo is designed by Don Preston.
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Books
Greenaway wrote the book Zappa The Hard Way (Wymer UK, 2010), which was launched at Zappanale #21, August 2010. The work deals with Zappa's final tour in 1988 and how it was prematurely discontinued over internal troubles. He also wrote Frank Talk: The Inside Stories of Zappa's Other People (Wymer UK, 2017), which collects all interviews with people who knew and worked with Zappa over the last three decades. [2] In 2019 he, Mick Zeuner and Klaus Kühner also published The Zappa Tour Atlas (Wymer UK, 2019), a comprehensive list of all of Zappa's tours. [3], which has a foreword by Robert Martin. A limited (500) edition hardback coffee table photo book of Zappa’s last tour entitled FZ88 [4] was also released through Wymer UK a couple of months prior. It is based around the photos of Sergio Albonico, and features a narrative written by Greenaway.
Recordings
Greenaway compiled various Zappa-related CDs for Cordelia Records, including the Zappanale volumes 17 and 18, co-compiled with John E. Campbell. In 2007 he released his own album, 20 Extraordinary Renditions (2007), which features a cover of The Idiot Bastard Son, performed by John Tabacco and Nigey Lennon.