Like his oddball rock songs, Frank Zappa’s family defied description. His music, and his kids’ pain, has endured.

Frank and Gail Zappa in 1972. “I never dreamed that my future would be my husband’s past,” she said in 2013, 20 years after his death. (AP Photo/AP Photo) “Gail is on a rampage,” he said.

Gail Zappa, widow of musician-composer Frank Zappa, shows a handful of motel keys at her Laurel Canyon home in 2013. Zappa, who has died at the age of 70, was known both as a free spirit and as a ...

Gail Zappa, widow of the iconoclastic musician Frank Zappa and a zealous advocate for artists’ ownership rights over their work, died Oct. 7 at her home in Los Angeles. She was 70.

Gail Zappa, the wife of late musician-composer Frank Zappa — on the cover of his 1974 album “Apostrophe(‘)” — has made it her job to protect her husband’s legacy.

By Daina Beth Solomon LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Gail Zappa, the widow of rock music legend Frank Zappa, died on Wednesday in Los Angeles, her family said. She was 70 years old. The family did not ...

Fifteen years gone, and Frank Zappa still casts a long shadow. Gail, like Travers, often speaks of him in present tense. And though, on this late-summer afternoon, ...

Moon Unit Zappa with her mother, Gail Zappa, and her father, Frank Zappa, in 1968. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty "I set out to do a couple of different things with the book," Moon says.

Moon Unit Zappa with her parents Gail Zappa and Frank Zappa in 1968. After checking to make sure Diva was OK, Moon put the pillow over her head and went back to sleep. Soon, her dad was by her ...

Moon Unit Zappa with her parents Gail Zappa and Frank Zappa in 1968. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty. After checking to make sure Diva was OK, Moon put the pillow over her head and went back to sleep.

Dweezil Zappa 50 Years of Frank: Dweezil Zappa Plays Whatever the (Expletive) He Wants — The Cease and Desist Tour 7 p.m. Tue. Royal Oak Music Theatre. 318 W. Fourth, Royal Oak. 248-399-2980 ...

Although she describes Frank, who died in 1993, as a guy who rarely raised his voice, his confrontations with Moon's mom, Gail Zappa, who died in 2015, could nonetheless get heated and scary.