Despite having been mentioned as one of the many former Frank Zappa sidemen that were lined up to play in next year's tour where Zappa appeared via hologram, guitarist Adrian Belew has now said that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Adrian Belew. Since his days alongside Frank Zappa, David Bowie and Robert Fripp, Adrian Belew has refused to remain static. Now, ...

More than three decades after Frank Zappa died of prostate cancer, Adrian Belew still vividly remembers the final time he saw the musician who helped launch his career. “My last time seeing Frank ...

Zappa's 1978 tour of Europe, Belew's first, had reached Cologne, Germany, when Brian Eno – a longtime collaborator who knew Bowie was looking for a new guitarist – caught a show. He urged Bowie to see ...

Adrian Belew, a man widely considered one of the most innovative guitar players of the 21st century, once toiled in a Beatles cover band, an Elvis impersonator band, a Holiday Inn circuit band, and ...

In the span of just a few years, guitarist Adrian Belew went from being behind on his rent, driving a broken-down Volkswagen and playing for the Nashville-based cover band Sweetheart to touring and ...

Frank Zappa, David Bowie, Talking Heads, King Crimson, Nine Inch Nails, Laurie Anderson and Paul Simon are just some of the past and present artists whose music has been elevated by the exceptional ...

A wizard of sonic manipulation and texture, Belew has been the guitarist of choice for the art-rock crowd, playing with Frank Zappa, Talking Heads, David Bowie, Laurie Anderson, and Nine Inch Nails ...

There aren’t very many guitar-slingers who could consistently work with such exacting taskmasters as Frank Zappa and Robert Fripp, not to mention the thin white duck, er, duke — David Bowie. Usual ...