From: bilh@pd.jaring.my   
      
   I picked up a copy of Hepworth's new (2017) book.   
      
   FZ gets only minor or passing mentions.   
      
   Here's perhaps the most meaty:   
      
   "The interesting thing about the new rock stars whose images were beginning to   
   be sold in the wake of festivals like Monterey was that they were made of such   
   apparently unpromising clay. Frank Zappa, Jerry Garcia, Pete Townshend and   
   Janis Joplin would    
   never have been stars in any other medium or at any other moment. In the case   
   of Joplin, as in the case of Zappa, they were probably more powerful as icons   
   than as musicians. Zappa pictured on the lavatory; Janis with the beads: both   
   were as likely to be    
   found on walls as on turntables. The first big-label Big Brother album did   
   well, although it took producer John Simon months to drag a performance out of   
   the band that he was happy with. Janis’s future was as a solo star."   
      
   So no particular new light on FZ.    
      
   An interesting analysis of the social phenomenon of celebrity based on   
   commodification of music, notwithstanding the lack of focus on FZ.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)