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American rock band use mdy dates April 2020 Infobox musical artist | name = ZZ Top | image = File:ZZ Top, Tons of Rock, Oslo Norway (53851276584) (cropped).jpg | caption = ZZ Top performing at Tons of Rock 2024. From left: Elwood Francis, Frank Beard (musician)|Frank Beard, Billy Gibbons | landscape = yes | background = group_or_band | origin = Houston|Houston, Texas, U.S. | genre = hlist|Blues rock|hard rock|boogie rock|Southern rock | discography = ZZ Top discography | years_active = 1969–present | label = hlist|American Recordings (record label)|American|RCA Records|RCA|Warner Bros. Records|Warner Bros.|London Records|London | spinoff_of = Hlist|Moving Sidewalks|American Blues | current_members = *Billy Gibbons *Frank Beard (musician)|Frank Beard *Elwood Francis | past_members = *Lanier Greig *Dan Mitchell *Billy Ethridge *Dusty Hill | website = URL|zztop.com ''ZZ Top''efn|Pronounced "Zee Zee Top". is an American rock band formed in Houston, Texas, in 1969. It consisted of vocalist-guitarist Billy Gibbons, drummer Frank Beard (musician)|Frank Beard, and bassist-vocalist Dusty Hill for 51 years 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' band, Moving Sidewalks, disbanded in 1969. Within a year, they signed with London Records and released ''ZZ Top's First Album'' in 1971. Albums ''Tres Hombres'' (1973) and ''Fandango!'' (1975, and singles "La Grange (song)|La Grange" and "Tush (ZZ Top song)|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 (1976–77, which was a critical and commercial success. 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 (album)|Eliminator'' (1983) and ''Afterburner (ZZ Top album)|Afterburner'' (1985, which integrated influences from New wave music|new wave, Punk rock|punk, and dance-rock. The popularity of the albums' music videos, including for "Gimme All Your Lovin'", "Sharp Dressed Man", and "Legs (song)|Legs", gave them mass exposure on MTV and made them prominent in 1980s Popular culture|pop culture. The ''Afterburner'' tour set records for the highest-attended and highest-grossing of 1986. After the release of their tenth album, ''Recycler (album)|Recycler'' (1990, and its Recycler Tour|accompanying tour, the group's experimentation continued with mixed success on the albums ''Antenna (ZZ Top album)|Antenna'' (1994, ''Rhythmeen'' (1996, ''XXX (ZZ Top album)|XXX'' (1999, and ''Mescalero (album)|Mescalero'' (2003). They 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 music.cite web Brett Milano Oldest Bands in Music: Acts That Defy the Laws of Age and Time uDiscover Music August 10, 2021 August 20, 2021 https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/oldest-bands-in-music-history/ |language= en-US 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.cite news Gabriel Falcon ZZ Top: After 50 years they've still got legs |work= CBS News July 21, 2019 March 4, 2020 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/zz-top-goin-50-dusty-hill-frank-beard-billy-gibbons/cite news Peter Blackstock ZZ Top at 50: Billy Gibbons takes us back to the beginning |newspaper= Austin American-Statesman May 15, 2019 May 15, 2019 https://www.austin360.com/entertainmentlife/20190515/zz-top-at-50-billy-gibbons-takes-us-back-to-beginning 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.cite magazine 100 Greatest Guitarists |magazine= Rolling Stone December 8, 2015 March 4, 2020 https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/100-greatest-guitarists-153675/billy-gibbons-153118/ The band members have supported campaigns and charities including Childline, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, and the Delta Blues Museum.
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