Book by Moon Unit Zappa: Life as the Daughter of Frank Zappa – Culture

Appearance Letterman Show 1982. You have to start here to get an idea of ​​what and, above all, who pays the price for genius. The genius, namely Frank Zappa, sits as a casually melted pillar in the chair next to his 14-year-old daughter Moon Unit Zappa in the late-night studio. Until recently, I would probably have written how enchantingly this 14-year-old parries the clumsy attempts of the still young Letterman to make fun of the name Moon Unit: Yes, yes, she would have liked to be called Beauty Heart or Mary in the past, but now she likes her name (Frank Zappa: “The alternative was 'Motorhead'”). How attentively, with her back straight, in a floral shirt and with her short 80s hair, she listens to the presenter Letterman as he asks: “What's he like at home?” I should have ignored the brief pause during which she bit her lower lip and instead written how she says with a dismissive hand gesture: “Oh, you know, just ordinary sadomasochism,” rolls her eyes and then swears: “No, I mean, he's a completely normal guy.” How the dangerously intelligent Frank Zappa grins under his moustache, his mouth twisted into a single black, crooked bar. And asked: How damn cool can a 14-year-old be? And: Sure, what else can you be as the daughter of Frank Zappa?