Books like The Real Frank Zappa Book

The first third of this book is really Zappa talking in a tongue in cheek manner about his career. Unfortunately, the second two thirds is more or less ranting about people he didn't like, his politics in the 80s (which I mostly agreed with but that is NOT why I wanted to read this book) and we do not learn much about the evolution of the band over time, why he made certain musical choices, about the riotous concert in Italy, about the MTV Halloween Ball (which got him banned forever from MTV)...unfortunately, I need to find another book - probably not by Frank - if I want to learn about this history of his band and his music because this one is NOT it.