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40 Years Of Rock ‘N Roll & Cars
By Gary Wien
For over forty years, ZZ Top has
been recording, touring, and residing on classic rock stations. The
trio of Billy Gibbons on guitar,
Dusty Hill on bass, and Frank Beard
on drums has remained the same
since first forming in Houston back
in 1970. They’re instantly recognizable thanks to the long beards of
Gibbons and Hill and their trade-
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mark sunglasses. Meanwhile,
over 25 million records sold and a
steady stream of hits earned them
an induction in the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame in 2004.
In the seventies, the hits included
songs like “La Grange”, “Tush”, and
“Cheap Sunglasses”, but the band
soared to new heights with the
emergence of MTV in the eighties.
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