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200 Motels is a 1971 surrealist musical film written and directed by Frank Zappa and Tony Palmer, and featuring music by Zappa. An international co-production of United States and the United Kingdom, the film stars the Mothers of Invention , Theodore Bikel , Keith Moon and Ringo Starr .
200 Motels, the soundtrack album to Frank Zappa's film of the same name, was released by United Artists Records in 1971. [2] The original vinyl release was a two-record set, largely containing alternating tracks of rock music performed by the Mothers of Invention and symphonic music performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Elgar Howarth, all composed and orchestrated by Zappa.
The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels is a documentary film made and released by Frank Zappa in 1987, detailing the making of Zappa's 1971 film 200 Motels. It was released direct-to-video . [ 1 ]
Simmons also appears in the Zappa movie The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels (1989). Numerous Zappa bootleg recordings from the same era also feature Simmons. Simmons's music career began in Seattle. In 1967 he became a member of the local group Blues Interchange which soon changed its name to Easy Chair.
Underwood can be heard (though not seen) in the soundtrack of the Zappa movie 200 Motels (1971), [4] and the Dub Room Special DVD (1982), [5] which includes performances from the KCET Special A Token Of His Extreme. She also features in the film of the Roxy performances (2015). [6]
Theodore Meir Bikel (/ b ɪ ˈ k ɛ l / bih-KEL; May 2, 1924 – July 21, 2015) was an Austrian actor, folk singer, musician, composer, unionist, and political activist.He appeared in films, including The African Queen (1951), Moulin Rouge (1952), The Kidnappers (1953), The Enemy Below (1957), I Want to Live!
As an actress, Miss Lucy appeared in 200 Motels (1971), Video from Hell (1985), and Uncle Meat (1987). She died in 1991 of complications from AIDS. [9] [10] Miss Sandra was born Sandra Lynn Rowe (later Sandra Leano and Sandra Lynn Harris) on January 18, 1949, in San Pedro, Los Angeles.
In Marcel Gotlib's comics series Hamster Jovial the title character listen to 200 Motels and questions the lyrics of the song Penis Dimension. [10] The cartoonist frequently referenced Zappa in other comics too. [11] A September 1970 issue of National Lampoon featured a parody of Archie Comics in which teenagers go to a Zappa concert. The ...