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ZZ Top News

ZZ Top announce dates to replace Aerosmith cancellations

Bearded band expand their own headlining stint

  • Aug 17, 2009

Download gives ZZ Top all their lovin'

Legendary rockers also cover Elvis Presley

  • Jun 14, 2009

ZZ Top cancel European tour

Due to benign growth

  • May 16, 2007

FUZZY-FACED LOGIC

The bearded (except Frank Beard, of course) ones play for George W. Bush...

  • Jan 5, 2001

THE TOP FORCED TO STOP!

The veteran rockers axe dates sfter bass player [b]Dusty Hill[/b] is laid low with Hepatitis C...

  • May 15, 2000

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ZZ Top Videos

Howling Bells - Top 5

Howling Bells - Top 5

Howling Bells - Top 5

NME Video News - 6 November 2009

NME Video News - 6 November 2009

NME's weekly round up of all the latest music news. This week, Biffy tops the first week of the NME Chart, Ian Brown is arrested and 2010 tour dates from Green Day and Vampire Weekend.

NME Video: The Strokes - Top 10 Classic Tracks

NME Video: The Strokes - Top 10 Classic Tracks

Nicolai and Fabrizio talk about their Top 10 Strokes tracks.

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NME - Little Boots Top 5

NME - Little Boots Top 5

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YouTube ZZ Top Videos

ZZ Top - Sharp Dressed Man

ZZ Top - Sharp Dressed Man (04:31)

ZZ Top peform live from their home state of Texas. This awesome performance captures ZZ Top at their very best. The full concert DVD, with plenty of bonus footage, is out now from Eagle Rock. If you are in the UK, the...

ZZ Top - Legs

ZZ Top - Legs (04:51)

ZZ Top peform live in front of a wildly enthusiastic audience. Captured in their home state of Texas, this awesome performance captures ZZ Top at their very best. The full concert DVD, with plenty of bonus footage, is...

ZZ Top guitar madness?

ZZ Top guitar madness? (03:26)

Playing Rough Boy guitar and bass parts all at the same time by myself. Absolutely no video editing tricks. Rate and share with your friends. Thanks to all my subscribers! Support my band: www.myspace.com #85 - Top...

La Grange - ZZ Top

La Grange - ZZ Top (03:49)

My new band doing some ZZ Top... La Grange.

ZZ Top - Got Me Under Pressure

ZZ Top - Got Me Under Pressure (04:04)

One of ZZ Top's legendary live performances, captured in their home state of Texas in front of a wildly enthusiastic audience. The full concert DVD, with plenty of bonus footage, is out now from Eagle Rock. If you are...

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ZZ Top Biography

ZZ Top (pronounced Zee Zee Top) is an American rock trio, formed in 1969 in Houston, Texas. Its members are Billy Gibbons (lead vocals and lead guitar), Joseph Dusty Hill (vocals, bass, and keyboards), and Frank Beard (drums). ZZ Top is ranked number 44 on VH1 cable's "100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock." The trio is one of the few rock bands still composed of its original recording members, and until September 2006 had the same manager, Bill Ham.

ZZ Top was inducted by Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame during the annual ceremony on March 15, 2004. Cub Koda wrote, "As genuine roots musicians, they have few peers; Gibbons is one of America's finest blues guitarists working in the hard rock idiom ... while Hill and Beard provide the ultimate rhythm section support."

ZZ Top is almost always pictured wearing sunglasses (a nod to their 1979 song "Cheap Sunglasses"). Gibbons and Hill wearing similar black clothing (usually biker leathers) and black cowboy hats or ball caps. Gibbons may wear black biker boots and neck chains with beer can openers. Although Gibbons and Hill wear chest-length beards, drummer Beard sports only a trimmed mustache.

In 1984, the Gillette Company reportedly offered Gibbons and Hill $1 million each to shave their beards for a television commercial. They allegedly declined, saying "We're too ugly without 'em."

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ZZ Top's Best Songs

  • 1. LA Grange
  • 2. Sharp Dressed Man
  • 3. Tush
  • 4. Gimme All Your Lovin'
  • 5. Legs
  • 6. Rough Boy
  • 7. Got Me Under Pressure
  • 8. Cheap Sunglasses
  • 9. Viva Las Vegas
  • 10. I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide
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ZZ Top Discography

ZZ Top albums.

  • Eliminator - 19/09/2008 (Warner Bros. Records/XE)
  • Rhythmeen - 17/09/1996 (RCA Records/US)
  • Antenna - (RCA Records/RU)
  • Recycler - (Warner Bros. Records/US)
  • Deguello - (Warner Bros. Records/US)
  • ZZ Top's First Album - (Warner Bros. Records/US)
  • Afterburner - (Warner Bros. Records/US)
  • El Loco - 01/10/1981 (Warner Bros. Records/US)
  • Rio Grande Mud - (Warner Bros. Records/DE)
  • Tejas - (London/US)
  • Tres Hombres - (London/GB)

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