ZAPPING ZAPPA: The late Frank Zappa was...

ZAPPING ZAPPA: The late Frank Zappa was known as an orchestral composer of the first rank. But when Zappa died this month and the obituaries were written, how was he remembered? Mostly as the writer of the 1982 song “Valley Girl,” a parody that mocked the stereotypical gum-chewing, mall-dwelling teen queens who even today haunt the Sherman Oaks Galleria. . . . Scott Harris (B1) takes a look at how Zappa bit the Valley, and how the Valley bit back.