Meeting an avant garde performer in London and moving over to live with him in Hollywood is very far from an everyday tale. “It was not until I was advised by a radio producer a few years ago ‘to write something that no one else could write’ that it started to come about.” Mrs Butcher Bird told Get Surrey : “Frank encouraged me to write a book but I was never able to do it. The events in the late 1960s that led to a young, unspoiled English girl going to live in Hollywood, Freak Out! My Life with Frank Zappa has now been adapted into a Radio 4 play by Matthew Broughton. These are the words of Cobham resident Pauline Butcher Bird about a book she has written detailing her friendship with the iconic American rock musician Frank Zappa. It’s a coming of age story about a young girl finding her identity.” “I want people to know it’s not a story about drugs and rock ’n’ roll.
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