Andrew Hickey

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A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs · Song 185: “Peaches En Regalia” by Frank Zappa · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

The photo for the intended front cover of the album shows a mother's line-up of Zappa, Estrada, Black, Gardner, Mundy and Preston.

The photo intended for the gatefold sleeve shows all of those plus Ian Underwood.

And the original credits for the album list all of those plus Motorhead Sherwood, who appears in the photo intended for the back sleeve but none of the other photos.

and who is dressed in male clothing while all the other mothers are wearing dresses.

But rather than crediting Preston with keyboards, he is credited as retired.

Both Preston and Ray Collins, who is not on the album at all, had quit the band but soon rejoined.

Preston was, by all accounts, out for less than a week.

He quit the band, flew back to California, discovered his wife was living with another man, and flew straight back to New York and rejoined.

But in that time, the liner notes had been finalised.

There's also a question of which of these people actually plays on the album.

According to the liner notes for the archival release The Lumpy Money Project Object, most of the album was actually performed just by Zappa, Underwood, Estrada and Mundy, with most of the parts being played by Underwood.

And while Black, Gardner, Preston and Motorhead all did contribute, they're barely on it.

That is of course possible.

But it's also notable that in 1985, Black, Gardner, Preston, Motorhead, Collins and future mother's percussionist Art Tripp all sued Zappa for non-payment of royalties, while none of the musicians named as playing major parts in the album did.

Far be it for me to suggest that Gail Zappa would hold a grudge more than 20 years later and belittle the contributions of the musicians who'd sued, but...

While We're Only In It For The Money is more listener-friendly than much of The Mother's music, it's based for the most part around relatively short, conventionally structured songs, with few of the classical references and avant-garde sections of Absolutely Free, the music isn't the thing about the album that gets discussed the most.

Generally, people focus on the cover, which parodies that of Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club band.

Never one to shy away from controversy, Zappa had had the band members dress up in drag.

MGM were initially worried that the parody cover would cause legal problems with the Beatles, and insisted that Zappa get permission from the Beatles to do this.

Zappa spoke with Paul McCartney, who was a fan, but McCartney told Zappa he left all that stuff to business people and didn't get involved with business stuff.

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