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ZZ Top’s Frank Beard posing for a photograph in the 1980s
Frank Beard was the enigma at the heart of ZZ Top

By David Sinclair Published

Frank Beard was cool, calm and collected - but ZZ Top’s human metronome had his dark times

Bands & Artists
Frank Beard onstage in 2023
ZZ Top drummer Frank Beard dead at 77

By Fraser Lewry Published

The ZZ Top drummer sat out recent shows due to health issues

Bands & Artists
Slash at the Sunset Marquis
Watch Bruce Springsteen, Slash, Dave Grohl, Nancy Wilson, Billy Gibbons and more share memories of LA's most rock 'n' roll hotel in trailer for new documentary

By Paul Brannigan Published

Star-studded documentary promises to lift the lid on the history of LA's legendary rock 'n' roll bolthole, the Sunset Marquis

Bands & Artists
ZZ Top posing for a photograph in 1985
How ZZ Top’s Afterburner continued one of the most unlikely success story

By James McNair Published

ZZ Top hit big with Eliminator. So they repeated the formula with Afterburner

Albums
ZZ Top posing for a photograph in 1975
How ZZ Top ended up playing to 1.2 million people with help from a monster hit and a travelling zoo

By Rob Hughes Published

Buffalo, buzzards and Tush? ZZ Top’s Fandango album saw the Little Ol’ Band From Texas go nationwide

Albums
Billy Gibbons and Jimi Hendrix
ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons on the night his teenage band supported Jimi Hendrix

By Paul Brannigan Published

When The Moving Sidewalks were picked to support Jimi Hendrix in Texas in 1968, they had just about enough songs to play a full set, but two of those were Jimi Hendrix hits

Interviews
ZZ Top in 1983 with Ford Coupe guitars
How ZZ Top mixed Depeche Mode and southern rock to deliver one of the biggest songs of 1983

By Classic Rock Magazine Published

The story of Sharp Dressed Man, the second of the Eliminator video trilogy that catapulted ZZ Top into pop culture superstardom

Tracks & Singles
Billy Gibbons studio portrait
Billy Gibbons and Keith Urban join forces on fuzz-friendly new single Brown Paper Bag

By Fraser Lewry Published

Billy F. Gibbons: Now even grizzlier than before

Bands & Artists
ZZ Top posing for a photograph in the early 1980s
How Bo Diddley, beards and a Mexican battle song set one of the greatest blues trios of the 70s on the road to 80s superstardom

By Henry Yates Published

ZZ Top’s 1979 album Deguello marked the start of their most successful era

Albums
A road beneath a cloudy sky with the words "A History Of Southern Rock in 40 Songs" emblazoned across it
The genre that refuses to die: A history Of Southern rock In 40 songs

By Polly Glass, Jerry Ewing, Malcolm Dome, Philip Wilding, Dave Ling Published

Buying guide From the late 60s until today, here are 40 songs that show why Southern rock continues to thrive

Buying guide
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