American rock band
ZZ Top
[a]
are an American rock band formed in
Houston, Texas
, in 1969. For 51 years, it consisted of vocalist-guitarist
Billy Gibbons
, drummer
Frank Beard
and bassist-vocalist
Dusty Hill
, until Hill's death in 2021. ZZ Top developed a signature sound based on Gibbons'
blues
style and Hill and Beard's
rhythm section
. They are known for their live performances, sly and humorous lyrics, and the matching appearances of Gibbons and Hill, who wore sunglasses, hats and long beards.
ZZ Top formed after Gibbons' previous band,
Moving Sidewalks
, disbanded in 1969. Within a year, they signed with
London Records
and released
ZZ Top's First Album
in 1971. Subsequent releases, such as
Tres Hombres
(1973) and
Fandango!
(1975), and the singles "
La Grange
" and "
Tush
", gained extensive radio
airplay
. By the mid-1970s, ZZ Top had become renowned in North America for their live act, including the
Worldwide Texas Tour
(1976?1977), which was a critical and commercial success.
After a hiatus, ZZ Top returned in 1979 with a new musical direction and image, with Gibbons and Hill wearing sunglasses and matching chest-length beards. With the album
El Loco
(1981), they began to experiment with
synthesizers
and
drum machines
. They established a more mainstream sound and rose to international stardom with
Eliminator
(1983) and
Afterburner
(1985), which integrated influences from
new wave
,
punk
, and
dance-rock
. The popularity of these albums' music videos, including those for "
Gimme All Your Lovin'
", "
Sharp Dressed Man
", and "
Legs
", gave them mass exposure on television channel
MTV
and made them prominent artists in 1980s
pop culture
. The
Afterburner
tour set records for the highest-attended and highest-grossing concert tour of 1986.
After gaining additional acclaim with the release of their tenth album,
Recycler
(1990), and its
accompanying tour
, the group's experimentation continued with mixed success on the albums
Antenna
(1994),
Rhythmeen
(1996),
XXX
(1999), and
Mescalero
(2003). They most recently released
La Futura
(2012) and
Goin' 50
(2019), a compilation album commemorating the band's 50th anniversary. By the time of Hill's death in 2021, ZZ Top had become the longest-running band with an unchanged lineup in the history of popular music.
[1]
Per Hill's wishes, he was replaced by their longtime
guitar tech
, Elwood Francis, on bass.
ZZ Top has released 15 studio albums and sold an estimated 50 million records worldwide.
[2]
[3]
They have won three
MTV Video Music Awards
, and in 2004, the members were inducted into the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
. In 2015,
Rolling Stone
ranked Gibbons the 32nd-greatest guitarist of all time.
[4]
The band members have supported campaigns and charities including
Childline
,
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
, and a fundraiser for the
Delta Blues Museum
.
History
[
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Early years (1969?1972)
[
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]
The original line-up was formed in
Houston
and consisted of Gibbons, bassist/organist Lanier Greig,
[5]
and drummer Dan Mitchell.
[5]
The name of the band was Gibbons' idea. The band had a small apartment covered with concert posters and he noticed that many performers' names used initials. Gibbons particularly noticed
B.B. King
and
Z. Z. Hill
and thought of combining the two into "ZZ King", but considered it too similar to the original name. He then figured that "king is at the top" which gave him the idea of naming the band "ZZ Top".
[6]
ZZ Top was managed by
Bill Ham
, a
Waxahachie, Texas
, native who had befriended Gibbons a year earlier. They released their first single, "Salt Lick", in 1969, and the B-side contained the song "Miller's Farm". Both songs credited Gibbons as the composer. Immediately after the recording of "Salt Lick", Greig was replaced by bassist Billy Ethridge, a bandmate of
Stevie Ray Vaughan
, and Mitchell was replaced by
Frank Beard
of
American Blues
. Due to lack of interest from the major American record companies, ZZ Top accepted a record deal from
London Records
, the American affiliate of the British
Decca Records
label. Unwilling to sign a recording contract, Ethridge quit the band and
Dusty Hill
, Frank Beard's American Blues bandmate, became his replacement in late 1969. At this moment, all three members of the band were 20 years old. After Hill moved from Dallas to Houston, ZZ Top signed with London in 1970. They performed their first concert together at a Knights of Columbus Hall in
Beaumont, Texas
, on February 10, 1970. The show was booked by
KLVI
radio personality Al Caldwell, who was also instrumental in broadcasting the band's first recordings.
[7]
In addition to assuming the role as the band's leader, Gibbons became the main lyricist and musical arranger. With the assistance of Ham and engineer Robin Hood Brians,
ZZ Top's First Album
(1971) was released. It featured "barrelhouse" rhythms, distorted guitars, double entendres, and innuendo. The music and songs reflected ZZ Top's blues influences. Following their debut album, the band released
Rio Grande Mud
(1972), which produced their first charting single, "
Francine
".
[8]
First decade of success and signature sound (1973?1982)
[
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ZZ Top released
Tres Hombres
in 1973, which reached the No. 8 position on the
Billboard 200
albums chart by early 1974. The album's sound was the result of the propulsive support provided by Hill and Beard, and Gibbons' "growling" guitar tone. Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote that the album "brought ZZ Top their first Top Ten record, making them stars in the process".
[9]
The album included the boogie-driven "
La Grange
" (written about the
Chicken Ranch
, a notorious
brothel
in
La Grange, Texas
, that also inspired the musical
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
). On the subsequent tour, the band performed sold-out concerts in the US. During this tour, ZZ Top recorded the live tracks that would fill one side of their 1975 album,
Fandango!
.
Fandango!
, which also contained one side of new studio songs, was a top-ten album; its single "
Tush
" peaked at number 20 on the
Billboard
Hot 100
.
ZZ Top began the
Worldwide Texas Tour
in May 1976 to support
Fandango!
, and the tour continued through 1977 with 98 shows over 18 months.
[10]
Tejas
, recorded during a break in the tour and released in November 1976, was the final ZZ Top album under their contract with London Records. It was not as successful or as positively received as their previous two efforts, but reached number 17 on the
Billboard
200
.
[11]
The singles from
Tejas
, "
It's Only Love
" and "
Arrested for Driving While Blind
", both failed to crack the Top 40 on the
Billboard
Hot 100.
In 1978, after almost seven years of touring and a string of successful albums, ZZ Top went on hiatus while Beard dealt with addiction problems. Gibbons traveled to Europe, Beard went to Jamaica, and Hill went to Mexico.
[12]
Hill also spent 3 months working at
DFW Airport
, saying he wanted to "feel normal" and "ground himself" after years spent performing.
[13]
In 1979, ZZ Top returned to record a new album. Gibbons and Hill were now sporting chest-length beards. ZZ Top signed with
Warner Bros. Records
and released the album
Deguello
in late 1979.
While
Deguello
went platinum, it only reached number 24 on the
Billboard
chart.
[14]
The album produced two popular singles: "
I Thank You
", a cover of the
David Porter
/
Isaac Hayes
composition originally recorded by
Sam & Dave
, and the band original "
Cheap Sunglasses
". The band remained a popular concert attraction and toured in support of
Deguello
. In April 1980, ZZ Top made their first appearances in Europe, performing for the German music television show
Rockpalast
(later included on the 2009 DVD
Double Down Live: 1980 & 2008
)
[15]
and the
BBC
show
The Old Grey Whistle Test
.
[16]
The band shared the BBC's studio with English
electronic
group
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
(OMD), whom Gibbons felt "were great".
[17]
Inspired by OMD, ZZ Top introduced a jerky dancing style to their live show and began to experiment with
synthesizers
,
[18]
[19]
which featured prominently on the October 1981 album
El Loco
.
[20]
The album peaked at number 17 on the
Billboard
chart, and featured the singles "
Tube Snake Boogie
", "
Pearl Necklace
", and "Leila".
[21]
Their albums from this period showed a more modern sound.
[22]
Eliminator
,
Afterburner
, and
Recycler
(1983?1991)
[
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]
Gibbons pushed the band into a more modern direction for
Eliminator
, released in March 1983. The album featured two Top-40 singles ("
Gimme All Your Lovin'
" and "
Legs
"), and two additional
Top Rock
hits ("
Got Me Under Pressure
" and "
Sharp Dressed Man
"), with the extended dance mix of "Legs" peaking at number 13 on the
Club Play Singles
chart.
[23]
The album became a critical and commercial success, selling more than 10 million copies while peaking at No. 9 in the U.S.
Billboard
pop charts. It is the only ZZ Top album to reach Diamond status in the US.
[24]
Several music videos from the album were in regular rotation on MTV, attracting many new fans. The band won their first
MTV Video Music Awards
in the categories of
Best Group Video
for "Legs", and
Best Direction
for "Sharp Dressed Man". The music videos were included in their
Greatest Hits
video, which was later released on DVD and quickly went multi-platinum.
[24]
Eliminator
retained Gibbons's signature guitar style while adding elements of
new wave music
; electronic band
Depeche Mode
have been cited as an influence on the album.
[25]
To compose the songs, Gibbons worked closely with live-in engineer Linden Hudson at the band's rehearsal studio in Texas, setting a faster
tempo
with
drum machines
and
synthesizers
. The main recording sessions were once again supervised in Memphis by
Terry Manning
who collaborated with Gibbons to replace much of the contributions from Hill and Beard.
[26]
Singer
Jimi Jamison
joined Manning to provide backing vocals for the album.
[27]
Stage manager David Blayney described how Hudson co-wrote much of the material on the album without receiving credit. The band recorded Hudson's song "Thug" without permission, finally paying him $600,000 in 1986 after he proved in court he held the copyright.
[26]
[28]
[29]
[30]
The band had previously used other people's work without credit, for instance, in 1972 ZZ Top claimed sole writing credit for the hit song "
Francine
" from the album
Rio Grande Mud
, cutting out two co-writers, Steve Perron and
Kenny Cordray
. Hudson's extensive contributions to the song "Groovy Little Hippie Pad" went uncredited in 1981 for the album
El Loco
.
[31]
Despite selling fewer copies than
Eliminator
,
Afterburner
(1985) became ZZ Top's highest-charting album (No. 4 on the U.S.
Billboard
chart),
[32]
with sales of five million copies.
[24]
All of the singles from
Afterburner
were Top-40 hits, with "Sleeping Bag" and "Stages" reaching number one on the Mainstream Rock chart.
[32]
The music video for "
Velcro Fly
" was choreographed by pop singer
Paula Abdul
.
[33]
In 1987, ZZ Top released
The Six Pack
, a collection of their first five albums plus
El Loco
. The albums were remixed with new drum and guitar effects for a more "contemporary" sound similar to
Eliminator
.
[34]
Recycler
, released in 1990, was ZZ Top's final studio album under contract with Warner Records.
Recycler
was also the last of a distinct sonic trilogy in the ZZ Top catalogue, marking a return towards a simpler guitar-driven blues sound with less synthesizer and pop bounce than the previous two albums. This move did not entirely suit the fan base that
Eliminator
and
Afterburner
had built up, and while
Recycler
did achieve platinum status, it never matched the sales of those albums. However, the single "
My Head's in Mississippi
" did reach No. 1 on the
Billboard
Album Rock Tracks
chart that year.
[35]
Return to guitar-driven sound (1992?2003)
[
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]
In 1992, Warner released
ZZ Top's Greatest Hits
, along with a new
Rolling Stones
-style cut, "Gun Love", and an
Elvis
-inflected video, "
Viva Las Vegas
". In 1993, ZZ Top inducted a major influence,
Cream
, into the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
.
In 1994, the band signed a $35 million deal with
RCA Records
,
[36]
releasing the million-selling
Antenna
. Subsequent RCA albums,
Rhythmeen
(1996) and 1999's
XXX
(the second album to feature live tracks) sold well, but did not reach the levels enjoyed previously. In 2003, ZZ Top released a final RCA album,
Mescalero
, an album thick with harsh Gibbons guitar and featuring a
hidden track
?a cover version of "
As Time Goes By.
" RCA impresario Clive Davis wanted to do a collaboration record (in the mode of
Carlos Santana
's successful
Supernatural
) for this album. In an interview in
Goldmine
magazine, Davis stated that artists
Pink
,
Dave Matthews
, and
Wilco
were among the artists slated for the project. ZZ Top performed "Tush" and "Legs" as part of the
Super Bowl XXXI halftime show
in 1997.
A comprehensive four-CD collection of recordings from the London and Warner Bros. years,
Chrome, Smoke & BBQ
, was released in 2003. It featured the band's first single (A- and B-side) and several rare B-side tracks, as well as a radio promotion from 1979, a live track, and several extended dance-mix versions of their biggest MTV hits. Three tracks from Billy Gibbons' pre-ZZ band, the
Moving Sidewalks
, were also included.
Critical acclaim and retrospective releases (2004?2011)
[
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]
In 2004, ZZ Top was inducted into the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
.
Keith Richards
of
the Rolling Stones
gave the induction speech. ZZ Top gave a brief performance, playing "La Grange" and "Tush".
In 2006
Tres Hombres
and
Fandango!
received releases of expanded and remastered versions, which used the original mixes free from echo and drum machines and included additional bonus live tracks.
The
Eliminator Collector's Edition
CD/DVD, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the band's iconic RIAA Diamond Certified album, was released September 10, 2008. The release includes seven bonus tracks and a bonus DVD, including four television performances from
The Tube
in November 1983.
[37]
The band performed at the 2009
Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo
on the final night on March 22, 2009. In July, the band appeared on
VH1
's
Storytellers
, in celebration of their four decades as recording artists.
[38]
La Futura
(2012?2020)
[
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]
Billy Gibbons stated in an interview in August 2011 that a new album had been recorded, with initial recording taking place in
Malibu, California
, before moving to Houston, but was still unnamed and had yet to be mixed and mastered.
[39]
Gibbons said that the expected release date was sometime in March or April 2012 but, later, a late summer or early fall release date was announced.
[39]
The album was subsequently released on September 11, 2012.
[40]
Entitled
La Futura
, the album was produced by
Rick Rubin
.
[41]
[42]
The first single from the album, "I Gotsta Get Paid", debuted in an advertising campaign for
Jeremiah Weed Whiskey
and appears on the soundtrack of the film
Battleship
.
[43]
The song itself is an interpretation of "25 Lighters" by Texan hip hop DJ DMD and rappers
Lil' Keke
and
Fat Pat
.
[44]
The first four songs from
La Futura
debuted on June 5, 2012, on an EP called
Texicali
.
[45]
DJ Screw
was a major influence on the album as well, particularly because Gibbons and Screw both worked with engineer G. L. Moon during the late 1990s.
[46]
On March 3, 2015, ZZ Top began a North American tour in
Red Bank, New Jersey
, at the Count Basie Theatre. After rescheduled dates and additions, the tour ended in
Highland Park, Illinois
, at the
Ravinia Festival
on August 27, with the opening act
Blackberry Smoke
.
Jeff Beck
joined ZZ Top for seven concerts.
[47]
[48]
On September 9, 2016, ZZ Top released
Tonite at Midnight: Live Greatest Hits from Around the World
. In 2017, they began the
2017 Tonnage Tour
,
[49]
but canceled the last few dates due to Hill's declining health.
[50]
In 2018, the band announced their six-day Las Vegas run of shows to be held at
the Venetian
, starting from April 20, 2019.
[51]
Gibbons told
Las Vegas Review-Journal
in April 2020 that ZZ Top had been preparing another album.
[52]
On June 21, 2020, Gibbons stated interest in having Beck appear.
[53]
Hill's death and upcoming album (2021?present)
[
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]
In July 2021, Hill was forced to leave a tour after a hip injury. ZZ Top performed without him at the Village Commons in
New Lenox, Illinois
, with Hill's
guitar tech
Elwood Francis on bass.
[54]
Five days later, on July 28, ZZ Top announced that Hill had died at his home in Houston at the age of 72.
[55]
His wife later reported that he had suffered from chronic
bursitis
.
[56]
Per Hill's wishes, ZZ Top continued with Francis on bass.
[54]
Hill had already recorded bass and vocals for ZZ Top's upcoming sixteenth studio album.
[57]
On July 22, 2022, ZZ Top released
Raw
, the soundtrack for the band's 2019 documentary
That Little Ol' Band from Texas
, via
Shelter Records
/
BMG
. It was one of their final live albums with Hill.
[58]
On December 12, 2022, ZZ Top announced a co-headlining tour with
Lynyrd Skynyrd
for summer 2023, titled The Sharp Dressed Simple Man Tour, due to commence on July 21 in
West Palm Beach
and to conclude on September 17 in
Camden
.
On November 6, 2023, it was announced the continuation in 2024 of the co-headlined Sharp Dressed Simple Man Tour with Lynyrd Skynyrd, due to kick off in March and cover most of the U.S. throughout the year with two legs. Debuting on March 8 in
Savannah, Georgia
, the first (20-date) leg will focus on the Southeast and Midwest, ending up in
Corpus Christi, Texas
on April 20. After a four month break, the second (16-date) leg will kick off on August 9 in
Mount Pleasant, Michigan
and hit the Northeast and some more Midwest before jumping to the West Coast for three more dates with the final show slated for September 22 in
Ridgefield, Washington
.
[59]
Other appearances
[
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ZZ Top appeared in a cameo in
Back to the Future Part III
as an
Old West
band, playing an acoustic version of their song "
Doubleback
" with a large fiddle band.
[60]
ZZ Top played
Super Bowl XXXI
in 1997, along with
the Blues Brothers
and
James Brown
.
[61]
They also performed at the 2008
Orange Bowl
game in
Miami
, as well as the
Auto Club 500
NASCAR
event at the
Auto Club Speedway
in
Fontana, California
. On June 23, 2008, the band celebrated the release of their first live concert DVD titled
Live from Texas
with the world premiere, a special appearance, and charity auction at the
Hard Rock Cafe
in Houston.
[62]
The DVD was officially released on June 24, 2008. The featured performance was culled from a concert filmed at the Nokia Theater in
Grand Prairie, Texas
, on November 1, 2007.
On January 22, 2010, Billy Gibbons,
Will Ferrell
, and
Beck
joined a band playing
Lynyrd Skynyrd
's "
Free Bird
" on
Conan O'Brien
's last
Tonight Show
appearance. O'Brien joined in on guitar.
[63]
In June 2011, various media sources reported that the new song "Flyin' High" would debut in space. Astronaut and friend of ZZ Top
Michael Fossum
was given the released single to listen to on his trip to the
International Space Station
.
[64]
[65]
On June 4, 2014, ZZ Top opened the
CMT Awards
ceremony, performing "La Grange" with
Luke Bryan
and
Florida Georgia Line
.
Musical style
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The Guardian
described ZZ Top as "part traditional, part contrary, and part of the deep seam of Texas weirdness that stretched from the
13th Floor Elevators
through to the
Butthole Surfers
".
[66]
Texas Monthly
described their music as "loud, macho, greasy, and distorted", with "unrepentant misogynistic references".
[67]
In the early 1980s, ZZ Top embraced
synthesizers
and
drum machines
, drawing inspiration from British
electronic
acts such as
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
and
Depeche Mode
(while deriving their dance moves from the former).
[18]
[68]
Hill and Gibbons worked as a kind of
double act
, looking similar and employing simple stage choreography that Hill described as "low-energy, high-impact".
[66]
ZZ Top's music has been classified as
blues rock
,
[69]
[70]
[71]
[72]
hard rock
,
[73]
[74]
[75]
boogie rock
,
[76]
[77]
Southern rock
,
[78]
[79]
blues
,
[75]
[80]
and
Texas blues
.
[81]
Drug use
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Beard struggled with addiction in the 1970s, claiming to have spent "every bit" of his money earned from ZZ Top's tours on drugs. Beard explains that he had different reasons for taking different drugs, saying "the pills thing came about just from the workload. And the heroin thing came about because I just liked it. I mean, you ever done heroin? It's great. It's a fucking vacation for the mind, and I liked it. I liked it a lot." Beard would eventually enter rehab in the 1980s and is sober to this day.
[82]
Hill would "[occasionally] partake" in marijuana until one occasion in a hotel in
Amsterdam
when Hill was smoking marijuana with guitar tech Elwood Francis and Francis noticed that there was a metal bar embedded into the window frame of the hotel room. Francis, seeing an opportunity for a prank, jumped out the window and (unbeknownst to Hill) grabbed onto the metal bar, making it appear that he had committed suicide. Hill apparently never smoked marijuana again after the incident.
[83]
Band members
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Current members
- Billy Gibbons
? guitars, lead and backing vocals
(1969?present)
- Frank Beard
? drums, percussion
(1969?present)
- Elwood Francis ? bass, backing and lead vocals
(2021?present)
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Former members
- Dan Mitchell ? drums
(1969)
- Lanier Greig ?
Hammond organ
, bass
(1969; died 2013)
[84]
- Billy Ethridge ? bass, keyboards
[84]
(1969?1970)
- Dusty Hill
? bass, backing and lead vocals, keyboards
(1970?2021; died 2021)
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Timeline
Discography
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Studio albums
Filmography
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In addition to recording and performing concerts, ZZ Top has also been involved with films and television. In the eighth episode "Sweet Dreams" in the
third season
of the American television
medical drama
St. Elsewhere
,
[85]
Luther Hawkins's ( Eric Laneuville )dream sequence was a parody of the music video "
Legs
" with the group while taking a brief nap in a janitor's closet;
[86]
[87]
In 1990, the group appeared as the "Band At the Party" in the film
Back to the Future Part III
[88]
and played the "Three Men in a Tub" in the movie
Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme
.
[89]
ZZ Top made further appearances, including the "Gumby with a Pokey" episode of
Two and a Half Men
in 2010
[90]
and the "
Hank Gets Dusted
" episode of
King of the Hill
in 2007.
[91]
The band also
guest hosted
an episode of
WWE Raw
.
[92]
Billy Gibbons had a recurring role as the father of
Angela Montenegro
in the television show
Bones
; though the character is never named, it is strongly implied that Gibbons is playing himself.
[93]
Their song "Sharp Dressed Man" was one of the theme songs used for the television show
Duck Dynasty
, and on the series finale of the show they appeared with
Si Robertson
as a vocalist to perform the song on stage during Robertson's retirement party.
[94]
Black Dahlia Films, led by Jamie Burton Chamberlin, of
Seattle
and
Los Angeles
, has contributed documentaries and
back line screen
work (the footage on back screens during live shows) and has become an integral part of the band's film-making.
[95]
[96]
In November 2020, it was announced that the 2019
Netflix
documentary
That Little Ol' Band from Texas
was nominated for the
Grammy Award for Best Music Film
with the award ceremony scheduled for March 2021.
[97]
Awards and achievements
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ZZ Top's music videos won multiple
VMA
awards during the 1980s, topping the categories of
Best Group Video
,
Best Direction
, and
Best Art Direction
for "Legs", "Sharp Dressed Man" and "
Rough Boy
", respectively.
[98]
Among high honors for ZZ Top have been induction into
Hollywood's RockWalk
in 1994,
[99]
the
Texas House of Representatives
naming them "Official Heroes for the State of Texas",
[100]
a declaration of "ZZ Top Day" in Texas by then-governor
Ann Richards
on May 4, 1991,
[101]
and induction into the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
in 2004. They were also given commemorative rings by actor
Billy Bob Thornton
from the
VH1 Rock Honors
in 2007.
[36]
ZZ Top has also achieved several chart and album sales feats, including six number-one singles on the
Mainstream Rock chart
. From the
RIAA
, ZZ Top has earned four gold, three platinum and two multiple-platinum album certifications, and one diamond album.
[24]
See also
[
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]
Notes
[
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]
- ^
Pronounced "Zee Zee Top".
References
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]
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Milano, Brett (August 10, 2021).
"Oldest Bands in Music: Acts That Defy the Laws of Age and Time"
.
uDiscover Music
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August 20,
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Falcon, Gabriel (July 21, 2019).
"ZZ Top: After 50 years they've still got legs"
.
CBS News
. Retrieved
March 4,
2020
.
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Blackstock, Peter (May 15, 2019).
"ZZ Top at 50: Billy Gibbons takes us back to the beginning"
.
Austin American-Statesman
. Retrieved
May 15,
2019
.
- ^
"100 Greatest Guitarists"
.
Rolling Stone
. December 8, 2015
. Retrieved
March 4,
2020
.
- ^
a
b
Dansby, Andrew (February 16, 2013).
"Greig, early ZZ Top member, dies at 64"
.
Houston Chronicle
. Retrieved
July 28,
2014
.
- ^
"Uncle Joe Benson ? The Story: ZZ Top 9-11-15 The Stor"
.
SoundCloud
. Archived from
the original
on October 7, 2015
. Retrieved
September 13,
2015
.
- ^
Hlavaty, Craig (February 10, 2020).
"ZZ Top played its first show together 50 years ago"
.
houstonchronicle.com
. Retrieved
May 25,
2022
.
- ^
Wilkening, Matthew (April 4, 2015).
"Revisiting ZZ Top's Second Album, 'Rio Grande Mud'
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