Moon Unit Zappa Felt 'Marginalized and Demoralized' as a Kid. ... became her dad’s first and only Top 40 hit. Behind the scenes, though, her home life wasn’t easy.

In 'Earth to Moon,' the 'Valley Girl' singer and daughter of music legend Frank Zappa mixes Hollywood tales with scenes from an often difficult and chaotic childhood.

Moon Unit Zappa (left) and her mother, Gail Zappa, in 2012. Lester Cohen/WireImage She never resolved things with her mother either, or tell her "first bully" how much emotional damage she had done.

When Moon Zappa and I arrange a place to meet to discuss her memoir, Earth to Moon, she requests the San Fernando Valley, which I wasn’t expecting. This is the area of Los Angeles that Moon ...

Moon Unit describes those traits left her with a yearning — for more of his time, his attention, his validation. She and her mother frequently clash as they navigate Frank’s long absences, ...

Moon Unit Zappa is an actor, singer and author of a new memoir “Earth to Moon,” which explores her upbringing in Hollywood as the child of iconoclast Frank Zappa. On Thursday, Aug. 15 at 12:00 ...

Moon Unit Zappa was only 14 years old when she helped her father, legendary art rock god Frank Zappa, accomplish something he hadn’t done before. Their 1982 collaboration, “Valley Girl,” on ...