ZZ Top is an American rock band formed in 1969 in Houston, Texas.
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21 Facts About ZZ Top
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ZZ Top developed a signature sound based on Gibbons' blues guitar style and Hill and Beard's rhythm section.
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ZZ Top formed after the demise of Moving Sidewalks, Gibbons' previous band, in 1969.
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ZZ Top has released 15 studio albums and sold an estimated 50 million albums worldwide.
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ZZ Top then figured that "king is at the top" which gave him the idea of naming the band "ZZ Top".
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ZZ Top was managed by Bill Ham, a Waxahachie, Texas, native who had befriended Gibbons a year earlier.
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ZZ Top released Tres Hombres in 1973, which reached the No 8 position on the Billboard 200 albums chart by early 1974.
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In 1987, ZZ Top released The Six Pack, a collection of their first five albums plus El Loco.
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Recycler was the last of a distinct sonic trilogy in the ZZ Top catalogue, marking a return towards a simpler guitar-driven blues sound with less synthesizer and pop bounce than the previous two albums.
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In 1993, ZZ Top inducted a major influence, Cream, into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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ZZ Top gave a brief performance, playing "La Grange" and "Tush".
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On March 3,2015, ZZ Top began a North American tour in Red Bank, New Jersey, at the Count Basie Theatre.
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On September 9,2016, ZZ Top released Tonite at Midnight: Live Greatest Hits from Around the World.
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ZZ Top performed without him at the Village Commons in New Lenox, Illinois, with Hill's guitar tech Elwood Francis on bass.
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ZZ Top appeared in a cameo in Back to the Future Part III as an Old West band, playing an acoustic version of their song "Doubleback" with a large fiddle band.
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ZZ Top performed at the 2008 Orange Bowl game in Miami, as well as the Auto Club 500 NASCAR event at the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California.
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On June 4,2014, ZZ Top opened the CMT Awards ceremony, performing "La Grange" with Luke Bryan and Florida Georgia Line.
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ZZ Top's music has been classified as blues rock, hard rock, boogie rock, Southern rock, blues and Texas blues.
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ZZ Top made further appearances, including the "Gumby with a Pokey" episode of Two and a Half Men in 2010 and the "Hank Gets Dusted" episode of King of the Hill in 2007.
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ZZ Top has achieved several chart and album sales feats, including six number-one singles on the Mainstream Rock chart.
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