
Andrew Greenaway was born in Orpington, Kent, in 1958. He edits the UK’s only Frank Zappa website (www.idiotbastard.com) and has curated seven Zappa-themed albums for Cordelia Records (with an eighth scheduled for release in 2019). As well as writing Zappa The Hard Way (2010), The Beatles... The Easy Way (2014), Frank Talk: The Inside Stories Of Zappa’s Other People (2017), FZ88: A Visual Documentary of Zappa's Final Tour (2019) and The Zappa Tour Atlas (2019) for Wymer Publishing, Andrew has contributed to 1001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die (Octopus Books, 2010), We Are The Other People - 25 Years Of Zappanale (Wehrhahn Verlag, 2014) and The Greatest Albums You'll Never Hear (Octopus Books, 2014). He also helped ‘ghost’ Anton Johnson's autobiography King Of Clubs (Grosvenor House, 2012) and is currently working on The Zappa Tour Atlas with Mick Zeuner and Klaus Kühner (slated for publication in September 2019) and a Zappa fan scrapbook. Andrew was one of the key contributors to ZappaCast - The Frank Zappa Podcast (http://www.zappa.com/zappacast) and now co-hosts Andrew & Lee’s Music Emporium on SoundCloud (https://soundcloud.com/andrew-greenaw...). He also co-organises Festival MOO-AH, a biennial celebration of Zappa’s music and more in Corby, and is an auxiliary member of the Zappa Early Renaissance Orchestra. Andrew has three children, two cats, one wife, and lives with them near the Thames Delta in deepest, darkest Essex. Aside from his family and music, his other interests include the Marx Brothers, Woody Allen, Kurt Vonnegut, Chelsea FC, Speedway GP, Coronation Street and having a laugh.