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Billy Gibbons’ wild tales of Jimi Hendrix, Keith Richards, Muddy Waters and Ministry
Meet the only man to have played with Hendrix, the Stones and Chad Kroeger from Nickelback
ZZ Top add yet more dates to ever-expanding Elevation tour as Frank Beard continues to miss shows
46 shows already played on ZZ Top's mammoth Elevation tour, 63 more to go
The decade the blues mutated: A beginners' guide to 80s blues in 10 essential albums
The 80s also saw the blues transform like never before, with Stevie Ray Vaughan drawing in hard rockers and purists alike and Robert Cray taking it to the masses
Las Vegas honours ZZ Top icon with special ceremony for 'Billy Gibbons Day'
Billy Gibbons' home town of Las Vegas, Nevada, rolls out the red carpet with City Hall ceremony for ZZ Top star
ZZ Top announce Elevation Tour dates for 2025
The shows will hopefully give fans another chance to behold the majesty of Elwood Francis's 17-string bass
The ZZ Top albums you should definitely listen to
The hirsute Texan rockers have an extensive track record – here we pick out the ZZ Top records essential for any collection
"We were starting to work in the girl theme. Cars, girls, fast and loud – those elements were starting to gel": How ZZ Top reinvented themselves with Degüello to pave the way for Eliminator
With some top tunes, a vintage clavinet and a battery of effects plastered all over it, Degüello successfully updated ZZ Top’s old-school blues and pointed the way towards future superstardom
“We treated them like a bunch of hairy blues wankers… I wish we’d had the sales Eliminator had!” How British synth-pop duo OMD unwittingly set ZZ Top on the path to mega-stardom
It may seem unlikely, but Billy Gibbons and co. learned their best moves from electro-pop duo OMD
"Saucy enough to flavour a thousand barbecues": How a fabled Texan brothel inspired a ZZ Top classic
Celebrating a real-life Texan brothel, the visiting of which was in its day "a rite of passage", La Grange is still one of ZZ Top's best-loved songs and a must-play at shows
"They couldn't transport the snakes in the cattle trailer because it upset the Longhorn and the buffalo": How ZZ Top took Texas on the road in the most sanity-defying tour ever staged
ZZ Top's Worldwide Texas Tour featured a plexiglass pyramid filled with rattlesnakes, trained buzzards, a fake wolf, and a night in Pittsburgh one doctor called "the most horrible thing I have seen since World War II"
