Absolutely Free (song) which is explained by Zappa in the spoken introduction to the song ("The first word in this song is discorporate. It means to leave your body"). "Discorporate" plays heavily in Robert Heinlein's science fiction novel "Stranger in a Strange Land", which was very popular among hippies and provided the muse for several songs by Jefferson Airplane. The lyrics also reference the song "Mellow Yellow" by singer-songwriter Donovan, who is often associated with the hippie movement ("The dreams as they live them are all mellow yellow"). On some pressings of the album, especially on earlier releases, two lines of the lyrics
Big Twist and the Mellow Fellows Big Twist and the Mellow Fellows Big Twist and the Mellow Fellows was an American blues and rhythm and blues group. The frontman was the singer and harmonica player Larry "Big Twist" Nolan (born Lawrence M. Nolan, September 23, 1937, Terre Haute, Indiana; died March 14, 1990, Broadview, Illinois). He began singing in church at the age of six. During the 1950s he sang and played drums in a bar band, the Mellow Fellows, performing everything from R & B, blues and country music. At the beginning of the 1970s he joined with guitarist Pete Special and tenor saxophonist Terry