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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 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"
ZZ Top announce first European tour in five years
"It's been a while since we've been able to check in with our European fans": ZZ Top's 2024 European shows will be their first on the continent with new bassist Elwood Francis
Watch Slash, ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons and Myles Kennedy join Gov’t Mule onstage for an epic cover of Lynynrd Skynyrd classic Simple Man
Warren Haynes’ annual Christmas Jam charity fundraiser featured some familiar faces and some killer collaborations this weekend
ZZ Top icon Dusty Hill's famous Fender Precision bass guitar sells at auction for $393,700
1953 Fender Precision bass owned and beloved by late ZZ Top star becomes second highest selling bass in auction history
