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Moon Unit Zappa: ‘I was a social experiment for my parents’

By Hadley Freeman
The Times·
15 mins to read

Frank Zappa’s daughter tells Hadley Freeman some home truths about her life as the child of a rock star.

Moon Unit Zappa was an anxious, pliant, hypervigilant child, the kind who would look for the fire exits when she walked in a room, because she had long ago learnt that the adults around her couldn’t keep her safe. After all, a parent who names their daughter “Moon Unit” is not one who prioritises giving the child any kind of normality

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