Zappa statue donated to US city

A bronze statue of Frank Zappa is to be erected in Baltimore in the US.

A group of Lithuanian artists built a bust of the late musician in the capital Vilnius in 1995 and has now donated a replica to his home city.

A Zappa fan club pitched the idea to Baltimore's public art commission, which voted unanimously to accept it.

Lithuanian PR consultant Arturas Baublys said before the decision: "It's carved already, and it's ready to be shipped to the US. Whenever Baltimore says, 'OK,' and gives us an address to ship it to, we pack it and we ship it on our costs. And that's a nation of three and a half million giving a present to the United States."

Baublys estimated the cost of creating and shipping the bust at around $50,000. The art commission is now in the process of deciding where to place it.

Zappa died in 1993 from prostate cancer, aged 52. He had no known connection to Lithuania.