Fricke has been nominated for a Grammy Award for his album liner notes and is a three-time winner of the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for excellence in music journalism. He has appeared on the "Classic Albums" documentaries on the making of Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of the Moon", Cream's "Disraeli Gears", Def Leppard's "Hysteria", Nirvana's "Nevermind", Metallica's "Black Album", Peter Gabriel's "So", Frank Zappa's "Apostrophe" and "Over-Nite Sensation" as well as Rush's "Moving Pictures" and "2112" albums. Fricke has also appeared on a number of Lou Reed documentaries and in the Wilco documentary "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart".