Musician Frank Zappa at home with his parents Francis and Rosemarie in Los Angeles, 1970. (📷John Olson/LIFE Picture Collection) To see more photos of (less color-coordinated) rock stars at home with their parents, check out:
John Olson/Life Pictures/Getty ImagesThey had fame, reams of money and fans willing to do wild, unmentionable things just to breathe the same air but in its September 24, 1971 issue, LIFE magazine illustrated a different side of the lives of rock stars. Like other mere mortals, they often came from humble backgrounds, with moms and dads who bragged about them, fussed over them, called them on their nonsense and worried about them every single day.
Here, LIFE.com brings back Olson’s nostalgia-sparking photos—Marvel at the decor! Gaze in wonder at the shag carpets and bell-bottoms!—and shares his memories of hanging out with pop culture icons of the Sixties and Seventies, as well as their mums and their dads.“Everyone had told me that Frank Zappa was going to be really difficult, and he couldn’t have been more professional,” Olson told LIFE.com.“My father has ambitions to be an actor,” Frank told LIFE. “He secretly wants to be on TV.
The Jefferson Airplane’s Grace Slick posed with her mother, Virginia Wing, in the living room of the home where she grew up in Palo Alto, California. “We raced out there because she was nine months pregnant,” remembered Olson, the photographer. “And the rest of the story took so long to complete, her daughter was a year old when it finally ran.
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