Warren Bruce Cuccurullo (born December 8, 1956) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, restaurant owner and former body builder who first worked with

Frank Zappa Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, composer, and bandleader. His work is characterized by wikt:nonconformity, nonconformity, Free improvisation, free-form improvisation, sound experimen ...

during the 1970s. He was also a founding member of

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in the 1980s. In 1986, Cuccurullo joined

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, becoming a long-term member of the band until 2001. In 2022, he was inducted into the

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as a member of Duran Duran.
Retrieved May 4, 2022.

Personal life

Warren Bruce Cuccurullo is the son of Jerry and Ellen Cuccurullo, the oldest child of four. He has two brothers, Jerry and Robert and a sister, Stephanie. His Italian-American heritage has its roots in

Nocera Inferiore Nocera Inferiore ( nap, Nucèrä Inferiórë or simply , , locally ) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Salerno, in Campania in southern Italy. It lies west of Nocera Superiore, at the foot of Monte Albino, some 20 km east-sou ...

in Campania, Italy, and he also has some Greek ancestry. He grew up in the

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neighborhood of Brooklyn, and began playing drums and guitar as a young child.Warren Cuccurullo Official Website
. Retrieved October 18, 2020. He graduated from

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in 1974. Cuccurullo has one adopted child, Mayko Cuccurullo (born 1983) who lives in

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, Brazil, who is actually the son of Claudia Bueno (Warren's former longtime girlfriend). Mayko is featured in the

video "Breath After Breath," filmed in Argentina in 1993 and contributed some minor vocal work on the ''N'Liten Up'' project. Cuccurullo returned to the United States in 2001 and lives in

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. His current focus is on film score compositions.

1977–1980: The Zappa years

In his teen years, Cuccurullo became a devoted fan of Frank Zappa and began traveling to every show within 500 miles of his Brooklyn home. During the mid-1970s, he befriended several members of Zappa's band, including

Terry Bozzio Terry John Bozzio (born December 27, 1950) is an American drummer best known for his work with Missing Persons and Frank Zappa. He has been featured on nine solo or collaborative albums, 26 albums with Zappa and seven albums with Missing Person ...

and

Patrick O'Hearn Patrick John O'Hearn (born September 6, 1954) is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, and recording artist. Known primarily as a bass guitarist and keyboardist, O'Hearn came to prominence with Frank Zappa and co-founded the early 1980s ...

. Over the next three years, he appeared with the band on stage at a couple of shows as well as in the 1979 Zappa film ''

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'' (filmed October 1977). He impressed Frank Zappa by knowing the guitar parts to every Zappa song in the catalog, including the strangest sounds and most bizarre time signatures. In December 1978, at the age of 22, Cuccurullo was invited to audition as a guitarist for Zappa's new road band, in which many members were replaced (including Bozzio and O'Hearn). Several shows on the early 1979 "Human Jukebox" European/Asian tour were recorded for Zappa's live albums. After the tour, Cuccurullo returned to the studio with Zappa to work on the ''

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'' albums, for which he provided rhythm guitar and several vocal parts. Terry Bozzio's wife

Dale Bozzio Dale Frances Bozzio (née Consalvi; born March 2, 1955) is an American rock and pop vocalist. She is best known as co-founder and lead singer of the '80s new wave band Missing Persons and for her work with Frank Zappa. While with Zappa, she perf ...

also contributed vocal parts to the album. Cuccurullo and Dale Bozzio began writing songs together, and eventually they convinced Terry Bozzio that the three of them should launch their own band. Zappa asked Cuccurullo to play on his 1988 tour, but the latter's involvement with Duran Duran had begun by then and so he declined. Cuccurullo is name-checked four times on Zappa's ''

'', first by (Dale Bozzio's character) Mary in "Catholic Girls", by Zappa (in character here as Larry) in "Crew Slut", when reassuring Mary, "of ''course'' I'll introduce you to Warren!", in the track "Sy Borg" when Ike Willis sings "little leather cap and trousers – they look so gay... Warren just bought some," and once again by Zappa during "

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" 'Then everybody moves to New York and goes to a party with Warren. hey!'

1980–1986: The Missing Persons years

In 1980, Cuccurullo and the two Bozzios formed

, recording a 4-song EP called ''Missing Persons'' with session musicians, including future keyboardist

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. They then toured to promote the EP and appeared in the movie ''

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''. By 1981, the group had added fellow Zappa alumnus Patrick O'Hearn, and Chuck Wild had become an official bandmember. Two years of hard work led to a signing with

Capitol Records Capitol Records, LLC (known legally as Capitol Records, Inc. until 2007) is an American record label distributed by Universal Music Group through its Capitol Music Group imprint. It was founded as the first West Coast-based record label of note ...

in 1982, the release of the album ''

Spring Session M ''Spring Session M'' is the debut studio album by American new wave band Missing Persons. It was released on October 8, 1982 by Capitol Records. The title of the album is an anagram of the band's name. Produced by Ken Scott with the songs writ ...

'', and the subsequent success of Missing Persons on radio and MTV. The singles "Mental Hopscotch", "Destination Unknown," "Walking in L.A.," "Words," and "Windows" all met with success. They appeared at the three-day Southern California concert, the

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in May 1983. In 1984, Cuccurullo invented a new type of guitar he called the "Missing Link", and used it on the experimental album '' Rhyme & Reason'' (1984). The band followed up with the more conventional ''

Color in Your Life ''Color in Your Life'' is the third studio album by the American band Missing Persons, released in 1986. It was the band's last studio album with the original line-up, with the sole exception of Chuck Wild, who left the group in 1985 and was not re ...

'' in June 1986, but during the short-lived promotional tour, increasing tensions between then-husband and wife Terry and Dale Bozzio led to the end of the tour and the band. On his own again, Cuccurullo began recording some music in his bedroom that was eventually released on his solo album ''Machine Language''.

1986–2001: The Duran Duran years

Missing Persons shared their label Capitol Records with British band

. As Missing Persons fell apart, Bozzio and O'Hearn were approached by Duran Duran guitarist Andy Taylor in Los Angeles for work on a solo album. In this way, Cuccurullo learned that Taylor did not intend to rejoin Duran Duran in England to work on their next album, even before the rest of Duran Duran knew. Cuccurullo sent a tape and a request for an audition, but was turned down, with some puzzlement.Malins, Steve. (2005) ''Notorious: The Unauthorized Biography'', André Deutsch/Carlton Publishing, UK () As it became clear that neither enticements nor lawsuits would get Taylor back in the studio, Duran Duran hired Cuccurullo as a session guitarist to complete the album ''Notorious''. He went on to tour with the band, and returned to contribute his increasingly experimental guitar work to the album ''Big Thing''. At the end of the grueling ten-month Big Thing world tour (in June 1989), Cuccurullo was made an official member of the band, and moved to London. Shifting record label politics and the unsuccessful album ''Liberty'' almost derailed the band, but after Cuccurullo offered them the use of his home studio (named "Privacy") in

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, Duran Duran was able to shift to a more comfortable and controlled music-making style. Cuccurullo's songwriting, guitar skills and driving personality contributed to the band's return to fame with 1993's ''Wedding Album''. He earned co-writing credits on the hit singles " Ordinary World" and "Come Undone", although the lyrics were written by

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. He created new arrangements for many of the band's old hits for the acoustic-flavored tour that followed, as well as arranging full acoustic pieces for the piano and six-piece string section that performed with them on the ''

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'' show. After Frank Zappa's death in December 1993, Cuccurullo performed the instrumental guitar piece "Watermelon in Easter Hay" (from the ''Joe's Garage'' album) in his honor at several Duran Duran shows. Tentative plans for a Missing Persons reunion in 1994 were shelved over remaining tensions between former band members. Cuccurullo and keyboardist Nick Rhodes continued to hold Duran Duran together during the band's lean times in the 1990s. The covers album ''Thank You'' (1995) was an attempt to keep the peace among band members who had increasing trouble writing music together. ''Medazzaland'' (1997) and ''Pop Trash'' (2000)—written after the departure of bassist John Taylor and Duran Duran's separation from Capitol Records—featured mostly new Cuccurullo/Rhodes songs and reworked

TV Mania TV Mania was a British-American electronic band founded in 1995 that consisted of keyboardist Nick Rhodes and guitarist Warren Cuccurullo (both of Duran Duran), long-time Duran Duran keyboard tech and collaborator Mark Tinley (a.k.a. Mark Ty-Whar ...

material, but failed to dent the charts even though the band sold out multiple nights in most cities on the 2000/2001 tour. In early 2001, Cuccurullo was asked to leave the band so that the original members of Duran Duran could reunite. At first the split was amicable, hinging on a financial settlement which granted him compensation from the band's forthcoming reunion album (to which he was not expected to contribute). Two years later relations soured considerably during the reunited band's American tour when he was asked by management not to attend the Los Angeles show after the band had invited him (no reason was given), and he began confirming some of the rumors that had spread about the 2001 split. Cuccurullo claimed that he was fired from Duran Duran by letter because Rhodes and Le Bon feared his reaction, though he told Duran Duran biographer Steve Malins, "I would never get aggressive in a situation like that. There were things that had to be sorted out in a professional manner, so that's what I did." Cucurrullo remained on good terms with Rhodes, however, and in 2013 they released an album containing material from their Duran Duran side project, TV Mania.

TV Mania

Beginning in the early 1990s, Cuccurullo collaborated with Duran Duran bandmate

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, calling themselves

, and began writing an experimental rock opera trilogy called '' Bored With Prozac and the Internet?'' (initially unreleased save for a few songs on Cuccurullo's website and in the movie ''Trollywood''). Rhodes and Cuccurullo wrote and recorded a song called "Tomorrow Never Dies" with vocalist

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for the

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film ''

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''. The song wasn't chosen, so

re-recorded it for the ''Pop Trash'' album with new lyrics under the title "Last Day on Earth". In December 1996,

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and Cuccurullo wrote and produced two songs for a never-completed Blondie project ("Pop Trash Movie" and "Studio 54"); the re-recording of the former gave the ''

Pop Trash ''Pop Trash'' is the tenth studio album by English new wave band Duran Duran. It was released on 19 June 2000 by Hollywood Records. ''Pop Trash'' was the band's first release after parting ways with EMI, with whom they had been signed since 198 ...

'' album its name. The

albums ''Medazzaland'' and ''Pop Trash'' were made up of reworked TV Mania songs, with Rhodes writing all lyrics to the songs on "Pop Trash" except for Someone Else, Not Me. The full, 11-track album '' Bored With Prozac and the Internet?'' was given an official release on March 11, 2013.

Solo and collaborative work

During breaks in

's 1989–1990 tour schedule, Cuccurullo worked with

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, Shenkar and

. In 1994, the preparations for a solo show near his hometown led to a burst of creativity; he recorded and mixed the ''Thanks 2 Frank'' album in less than ten days, with bassists

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and

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and ex- Zappa drummer

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. The album was released on

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in 1996. In 1997 Cuccurullo completed ''Machine Language'', an ambient instrumental guitar album, also released on

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. He followed up with a live album, '' Roadrage'' in 1998 (on Bandai Records). ''The Blue'' (recorded with Shenkar in 1992) was self-released in 2000. Another ambient album, ''Trance Formed'', was released on

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in 2003. In 2005, Cuccurullo and

collaborated on a CD titled ''Playing in Tongues'', which was released in Europe on

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and in the U.S. on

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in 2009. Cuccurullo also completed a

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titled ''N'Liten Up'', recorded at The Village studios in West Los Angeles by Kent Huffnagle and produced by Simone Sello.

Missing Persons redux

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''Spring Session M'' was released on CD in 1995, followed by ''Rhyme and Reason'' and ''Color in Your Life'' in 2000. Each of the three studio CDs were newly augmented by six rare B-sides or live tracks. ''Classic Remasters'' is a compilation of remastered tracks and dance mixes issued by Capitol Records with no band involvement. Beginning in 1997, Cuccurullo began work on his "Missing Persons Archival Trilogy" project. The first CD to be released was '' Late Nights Early Days'' in 1998, a live concert recorded in 1981 with the added 1980 studio track "Action/Reaction." This was followed up by a compilation of modern remixes of classic MP tracks, ''Missing Persons Remixed Hits'' (1999) which included the

remix of "Destination Unknown." In 2002 ''Lost Tracks'' was released, a collection of extremely rare Missing Persons live tracks from five different eras of the band. Meanwhile, in late 2000, Cuccurullo and Dale Bozzio again began discussing a Missing Persons reunion to feature original members Warren, Dale Bozzio and Terry Bozzio, with new keyboardist

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(of Dale Bozzio's band) and bassist Wes Wehmiller (formerly in Cuccurullo's solo band and Duran Duran's tour bassist from 1997 to 2001). The short-lived, official reunion consisted of promotional activities and three live performances in July 2001. Late 2002/early 2003 brought us "Missing Persons Featuring Dale Bozzio and Warren Cuccurullo." Filling in were keyboardist Ron Poster, bassist Wes Wehmiller and drummer Joe Travers (formerly in Cuccurullo's solo band and Duran Duran's tour drummer from 1999 to 2001). This version of Missing Persons was featured on

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(performing "Destination Unknown") and did three live performances in February 2003. Following this, Dale Bozzio returned to touring as "Missing Persons" with hired musicians. In 2011 Cuccurullo rejoined Bozzio as part of another short-lived Missing Persons reunion tour.

Restaurant projects

In mid-2002, Cuccurullo purchased an Italian restaurant called Via Veneto in

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. More recently, he also funded the opening of a restaurant called Hidden and

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restaurants with Michael "Bao" Huynh.

Return to music

Re-focusing on his music, Cuccurullo started a new collaborative project with composer Eric Alexandrakis, drummer

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, and producer

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. Explaining the purpose of that project in a

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news release Alexandrakis said, "The four of us decided to create a scoring collective to pursue scoring projects in TV themes, film, and advertising…" Cuccurullo released the debut album from his collaborative effort with vocalist

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, on May 11, 2010. Recorded a few years earlier, the album, also titled ''

'', was released on CD and digital media through Recordings. Musicians who joined Cuccurullo and Carlill for selected sessions on the ''

'' album included among others,

, Joe Travers, sarangi virtuoso

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, and producer Simone Sello. Also in 2010, Cuccurullo formed a local

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group called Theoretical 5 in

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with

alumni

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(bass) and

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(keyboards, vocals), and also Larry Klimas (saxophone), and

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(drums, percussion).

Discography

With Frank Zappa

* ''

'' * ''

Acts I, II, and III'' * ''

Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar ''Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar'', a project consisting of ''Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar'', ''Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar Some More'' and ''Return of the Son of Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar'', is a series of albums by Frank Zappa. The albums consist s ...

'' * ''

Tinsel Town Rebellion ''Tinsel Town Rebellion'' is a double live album released by Frank Zappa in May 1981. The album was conceived by Zappa after he scrapped the planned albums ''Warts and All'' and ''Crush All Boxes'', and contains tracks that were intended for those ...

'' * ''Any Way The Wind Blows'' * ''You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore volume 1'' * ''You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore volume 4'' * ''You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore volume 6'' * ''Guitar'' * ''You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore Sampler'' * ''Strictly Commercial'' * ''Frank Zappa: A Memorial Tribute'' * ''Have I Offended Someone? (Catholic Girls)'' * ''Son Of Cheep Thrills (Love Of My Life)''

With Missing Persons

* ''Missing Persons'' EP (1980, 1982) * ''

'' (1982, 1995) * '' Rhyme & Reason'' (1984, 2000) * ''

'' (1986, 2000) * ''Best of Missing Persons'' (1987) * ''Walking in L.A.'' (1988) * ''Late Nights Early Days'' (1998) * ''Missing Persons Remixed Hits'' (1999) * ''Classic Remasters'' (2002) * ''Lost Tracks'' (2002)

With Duran Duran

* '' Notorious'' (1986) * '' Big Thing'' (1988) * ''

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'' (1990) * ''

(The Wedding Album)'' (1993) * ''

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'' (1995) * ''

Medazzaland ''Medazzaland'' is the ninth studio album by English new wave band Duran Duran. It was released on 14 October 1997 by Capitol Records. The album was never officially released physically in Europe until 2022, and was solely released in North Am ...

'' (1997) * ''

'' (2000)

Solo releases

* ''Thanks to Frank'' (1995) * ''Machine Language'' (1997) * ''Roadrage'' (1998) * ''The Blue'' (2000) * ''Trance Formed'' (2003) * ''Playing in Tongues'' (March 2009 Edel Records – Europe, June 2009 Zappa Records – USA) * ''n'liten up'' (2015 – Self-released via Bandcamp) * ''Missing Person'' (2019)

Chicanery

* ''

'' (May 2010 dPulse Recordings)

Collaborations

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* The Epidemics *

Dweezil Zappa Dweezil Zappa (born Ian Donald Calvin Euclid Zappa; September 5, 1969) is an American rock guitarist and occasional actor. He is the son of musical composer and performer Frank Zappa. Exposed to the music industry from an early age, Dweezil dev ...

* Ellis, Beggs & Howard * Blondie *

—please see ''Playing in Tongues'' above *

References

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