Helen Barrett

Her weird name was the least of Moon Unit Zappa’s problems

Frank and Gail Zappa’s eldest child describes how the endless battles between her manipulative mother and misogynist father in the 1970s blight the family to this day

Frank, Gail and Moon Unit Zappa in Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles, 1968. [Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images]
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