Frank Zappa’s ‘One Size Fits All’ to Receive 50th Anniversary Reissue
The new edition will be released on September 26.
In celebration of 50 years of Frank Zappa’s monumental 1975 album One Size Fits All, a suite of newly expanded 50th anniversary editions led by a five-disc (4CD/1Blu-ray Audio) Super Deluxe Edition will be released via Zappa Records/UMe.
The lavish Super Deluxe Edition box comes complete with a 36-page booklet and unseen photos from the archives of Sam Emerson, in addition to liner notes and new historical essays by noted music journalist David Fricke, longtime Zappa/Mothers bandmember Ruth Underwood, and, as always, The Vaultmeister, Joe Travers.
One Size Fits All will also be released on vinyl with two special pressings: a 180-gram 2LP “Black Glitter” anniversary edition that combines a brand-new analog cut of the album with a bonus LP of highlights from the box set plus the 50th anniversary booklet, and a limited edition 1LP on 180-gram “Blue Galaxy” vinyl housed in a jacket printed on silver foil and including a lithograph of a never-before-seen photo contact sheet from one of Zappa’s historic shoots with Sam Emerson.
The Super Deluxe Edition and 2LP will be released on September 26 but fans who pre-order any of the One Size All: 50th Anniversary Edition offerings will receive the album on Friday, August 1.
A new merch collection celebrating 50 years of One Size Fits All has also just been released, including t-shirts, posters, branded One Size Fits All socks, and more.
Produced by Ahmet Zappa and Zappa Vaultmeister Joe Travers, the new, expanded collection, One Size Fits All: 50th Anniversary Edition, sports the 2012 remaster of the original album by Bob Ludwig, along with scores of additional session outtakes from The Vault, alternate takes, and 2024 mixes remixed and restored by Craig Parker Adams, all remastered in 2025 by John Polito at Audio Mechanics.
Also included in the expanded collection is a live concert recording captured at Sports Palace Ahoy in Rotterdam, Amsterdam, on September 28, 1974, plus a pair of bonus concert tracks from Gothenburg Concert Hall in Gothenburg, Sweden, extracted from a gig just a few days earlier on September 25, 1974.
