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Watch Billy Gibbons Busking In Helsinki And No-One Seems To Care

by Paul Cashmere

ZZ Top legend Billy Gibbons treated Helsinki to a free concert in the streets this week and no-one seemed to care.

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ZZ Top To Release Vinyl Box Of First Five Albums

by Noise11.com

ZZ Top’s first five albums, released between 1971 and 1976, will be released as the vinyl box set ‘Cinco’ in July.

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ZZ Top Extend US Tour

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

ZZ Top have added 21 dates to their ongoing Tonnage Tour spanning the North American east coast and mid-section.

Tagged as: 70s, blues, rock, USA, ZZ Top

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ZZ Top Set First Dates For 2017

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

ZZ Top have relentlessly toured since their formation in 1969 and 2017 will be no exception as they have already set their first dates.

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ZZ Top Greatest Hits From Around The World

ZZ Top Lap The Globe For Live Greatest Hits

by Paul Cashmere

ZZ Top had to fly around the planet to compile their latest album.

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R.I.P. ZZ Top Manager Bill Ham At 79

by Paul Cashmere

Bill Ham, the long-time manager of ZZ Top, has died in Austin, Texas at the age of 79.

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ZZ Top To Release Live Greatest Hits Album

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

With seven Billboard Top 10 albums to their name, multiple Platinum album certifications all over the world and a place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the legendary ZZ Top are officially the world’s longest running rock band with its original line-up intact.

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ZZ Top Stall Tour After Dusty Hills Breaks Shoulder

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

What was originally thought to be a dislocated shoulder has turned out to be a broken one, forcing ZZ Top to postpone a series of dates.

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ZZ Top Cancel Shows Because Dusty Hill Dislocates Shoulder

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

ZZ Top was all set for their show last night at the Lone Star Events Center Amphitheater in Lubbock, TX but, as he was exiting the tour bus, bassist Dusty Hill fell and dislocated his shoulder.

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ZZ Top, Art Garfunkel, New Order, Jeff Lynne To Play Glastonbury

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

The Glastonbury Festival has announced their preliminary 2016 lineup and a number of veteran artists have made the cut.

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ZZ Top Doco To Be Made

by Music-News.com

Banger Films, in association with Eagle Rock Entertainment, is set to produce the first-ever feature length documentary exploring the fascinating, mysterious tale of Texas band, ZZ Top.

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ZZ Top Set 2016 Tour Dates

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

ZZ Top may be 46 years into their career as one of the great rock-blues bands, but they are still going strong with a new set of dates for 2016.

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Billy Gibbons To Tour Solo In 2016

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons has released his first solo album, Perfectamundo, and beginning January 20, Gibbons will play a short tour of thirteen dates in the East Coast of the USA.

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Billy Gibbons ‘Got Love If You Want It’ #VIDEO

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons has released a second track from his upcoming solo album ‘Perfectamundo’.

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Billy Gibbons To Release First Solo Album

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

For the first time in his almost fifty year career, Billy Gibbons is about to release a solo album and embark on a tour without Frank Beard and Dusty Hill, his bandmates in ZZ Top.

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ZZ Top Reschedule Tour

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

ZZ Top’s 2014 tours were interrupted when member Dusty Hill fell and injured his hip while on the band’s tour bus.

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ZZ Top Cancel All Remaining Shows For 2014

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

When Dusty Hill of ZZ Top fell and injured his hip, it caused the band to cancel the balance of their tour with Jeff Beck but it was hoped they would be able to finish out the rest of their 2014 dates.

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ZZ Top Cancel All Upcoming Dates

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

ZZ Top have cancelled their current US after yesterday announcing it had been suspended.

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ZZ Top Postpone Tour As Dusty Hill Goes In For Surgery

by Paul Cashmere

ZZ Top have been forced to postpone their upcoming US tour because bass player Dusty Hill has had to have surgery.

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ZZ Top Celebrates 45 Years Together With New Best Of

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

“That little ‘ole band from Texas”, ZZ Top, celebrates its 45th anniversary in 2014 with the release of the new career compilation The Very Baddest of ZZ Top.

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ZZ Top and Jeff Beck Team For Summer Tour

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

ZZ Top and Jeff Beck will be teaming for a 2014 summer tour with the artists promising a lot of synergy.

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ZZ Top Set 2014 Dates

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

ZZ Top have added a number of U.S. and European dates around their previously announced tour of Canada.

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Paul McCartney Weird Al ZZ Top Setlists From Bonnaroo

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Bonnaroo 2013, held last weekend, is now just a memory but we’ve managed to track down set lists for six veteran artists who played the festival, including Paul McCartney’s epic 38-song/3-hour show on Friday night.

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ZZ Top Warner Catalogue Packaged For Box Set

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

ZZ Top is the latest artist to get the box set treatment featuring their entire catalog from their time with Warner Brothers.

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Guns N’ Roses 3D Live Concert Trailer Released VIDEO

by Paul Cashmere

Guns N’ Roses will release their first concert movie in 21 years soon.

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The Dead Daisies Release Footage From ZZ Top Gold Coast Show

by Paul Cashmere

The Dead Daisies have released video footage from their show on the Gold Coast with ZZ Top.

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Kid Rock Goes Out On The Road With Kool And The Gang And ZZ Top

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Kid Rock will be on the road this summer with his Rebel Soul Tour, a unique tour in that the singer is offering tickets in all sections of each show for $20 along with reduced parking, refreshments and merchandise. He’s also putting checks in place to ensure that tickets go to fans and not to

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Billy Gibbons’ Moving Sidewalks Plays First Gig Since The 60s

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Before their was ZZ Top, Billy Gibbons played in a psychedelic blues-rock band called the Moving Sidewalks with Don Summers, Dan Mitchell and Tom Moore.

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ZZ Top Play Melbourne SETLIST

by Paul Cashmere

ZZ Top performed their first of two shows at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne on Saturday (March 16, 2013).

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Angry Anderson Joins Guns N Roses For Nice Boys

by Paul Cashmere

Axl Rose brought Rose Tattoo’s Angry Anderson on stage in Melbourne last night to help Guns N’ Roses out with ‘Nice Boys’.

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