ZZ Top, American group famous for its rugged -driven work, irreverent videos, and embrace of its roots, as well as for the musicians’ distinctive facial hair. The members are singer-guitarist Billy Gibbons (b. December 16, 1949, , Texas, U.S.), bass player Dusty Hill (original name Joe Michael Hill, b. May 19, 1949, Dallas, Texas—d. July 27, 2021, Houston), and drummer Frank Beard (b. June 11, 1949, Frankston, Texas).ZZ Top was formed in the Houston area when Gibbons, formerly of the blues-rock Moving Sidewalks, united with Hill and Beard, who had previously performed together in the band American Blues. Taking its sonic cues from such blues artists as and , the band built a following with ZZ Top’s First Album (1970) and Rio Grande Mud (1971). Its breakthrough came in 1973 when the single “La Grange,” from Tres Hombres, became a radio hit. Two years later “Tush,” off the hit album Fandango, cracked the top 20 of the Billboard singles chart. The band’s Worldwide Texas Tour (1976)—during which they performed on a Texas-shaped stage littered with props that included cacti, snakes, and longhorn cattle—was one of the most successful concert tours of the 1970s.Throughout the late 1970s and early ’80s, ZZ Top’s albums enjoyed consistent commercial success, and Eliminator (1983) turned them into international superstars. Incorporating electronic synthesizers and disco-influenced rhythms into their signature blues sound, the band projected a cartoonish public image in music videos in which Gibbons and Hill sported scraggly beards and flamboyant suits and which were punctuated by the threesome’s comic hand gestures. Buoyed by hits such as “Gimme All Your Lovin’,” “Sharp Dressed Man,” and “Legs,” Eliminator went on to sell more than 10 million copies. Afterburner (1985) yielded the additional hits “Rough Boy” and “Sleeping Bag.”, With an unchanged line-up stretching back to 1969 and global album sales in excess of 50 million, ZZ Top continue to delight fans around the world with brilliant live concerts and great music., ZZ Top are readying a new album titled RAW that was recorded in connection with the band’s wildly popular and critically lauded 2019 Netflix documentary That Little Ol’ Band From Texas..