Andrew Greenaway

Andrew Greenaway was born in Orpington, Kent, in 1958. He edits the UK’s only Frank Zappa News website and has curated eleven Zappa-themed CDs for Cordelia Records.

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) and FZ88: A Visual Documentary of Zappa's Final Tour (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 most recent books are his self-published Frank Zappa FUQ series.

He also helped ‘ghost’ Anton Johnson's autobiography King Of Clubs (Grosvenor House, 2012) and co-wrote The Zappa Tour Atlas (2019) with Mick Zeuner and Klaus Kühner.

Andrew was one of the original contributors to ZappaCast - The Frank Zappa Podcast and co-hosted Andrew & Lee’s Music Emporium on SoundCloud. Since 2013, he has also co-organised Festival MOO-AH, an episodically biennial celebration of Zappa’s music and more in Corby.

Andrew has three children, two grandchildren, 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 right old laugh.