The widow of experimental rocker Frank Zappa, who devoted herself to a prolific flow of posthumous releases of his music, has died at 70, months after what she said was his final album.
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“Gail will forever be identified as a key figure in the creative renaissance that is Laurel Canyon”.
The couple had four children, Moon (born September 28, 1967, one week after their marriage), Dweezil (1969), Ahmet (1974) and Diva (1979). According to a statement released by the Zappa family, “Gail was a doe-eyed, barefooted trailblazer, giving equal value to her domestic and professional responsibilities as matriarch of the family and overseer of all Zappa enterprises”. In this June 4, 2009, photo, the family of late musician Frank Zappa, wife Gail, from left, son Dweezil and daughter Diva, stand near by the Frank Zappa statue, in Vilnius, Lithuania. In one notable instance, Gail Zappa sued the German music festival Zappanale for using her family’s name without permission, and for promoting the festival with an image that looked like Zappa’s trademark mustache. But, she noted, he never said what to do with his publishing catalog – the rights to his compositions – and so she defied his request and became the keeper of his musical empire.
In July, the family announced that Ahmet Zappa would take over daily operations of the trust.
Gail Zappa in 2012.
She met Frank Zappa in the mid ’60s, and the two were Wednesday by 1967.
In her management of her husband’s legacy, Gail Zappa was often combative.
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She did all of this, by her account, to protect the integrity of her husband’s work. Gail Zappa died on October. 7 in Los Angeles.
