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Meet the only man to have played with Hendrix, the Stones and Chad Kroeger from Nickelback
46 shows already played on ZZ Top's mammoth Elevation tour, 63 more to go
Buying guide 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
Billy Gibbons' home town of Las Vegas, Nevada, rolls out the red carpet with City Hall ceremony for ZZ Top star
The shows will hopefully give fans another chance to behold the majesty of Elwood Francis's 17-string bass
Buying guide The hirsute Texan rockers have an extensive track record – here we pick out the ZZ Top records essential for any collection
It may seem unlikely, but Billy Gibbons and co. learned their best moves from electro-pop duo OMD
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
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"
