Ellery Queen and Nero Wolfe are other popular subjects of mystery parodies and pastiches. Parodies or pastiches of the song have been sung in a number of television programs. The comic also prints regular satirical pastiches of typical tabloid and local media news stories. Dixon's novels were best-sellers in their day, despite being racist pastiches of historical romance fiction. They are generally considered Sherlock Holmes pastiches. The song "Tropicalia" pastiches the works of Brazilian tropicalia artists of the era. Some of Kreisler's compositions were pastiches ostensibly in the style of other composers. The song pastiches "Hello" magazine, in satire of post-Big Bang UK consumerist culture. The novel also explores and pastiches different types of historical writing. The 1980s saw "uncomfortable pastiches of facades with no coherence and little artistic merit". His hobbies included electric guitars and writing pastiches of H. H. Munro. One can find musical "pastiches" throughout the work of the American composer Frank Zappa. Both characters also appear in many pastiches. The group is the focus of a number of Holmes pastiches by Kim Newman. The book must be 'one of the most skilful pastiches in the history of literature.