It always surprises me how many people, even Zappa admirers, don't even know how he first busted out in the media scene.
He taught Steve Allen how to play the bicycle as a musical instrument. No, a LITERAL bicycle. They did a duet playing bicycles.
There are people here who weren't even alive when Steve Allen was a thing, but he was the David Letterman and Johnny Carson of his time. Oh shit, some of you newfags at life may not even remember those guys. Like Conan O'Brien maybe? Anyway you get it, or at least I hope so.
Can any of you remember a late 70's pop rock song? Something like the male chorus singing "live and forget" or "we won't connect," then the main singer singing something like "you're going/we're driving much too fast" before a 2 full note bass lick.
I've been wondering why reddit and modern pop culture absolutely loathes Pat Boone. All he did was sing some stupid songs in the before times. Is the world mad at him because he didn't go full Bobby Darin?