ZZ Top
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Year:
2004
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Inducted by:
Keith Richards
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Category:
Performers
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Billy Gibbons
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Frank Beard
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Dusty Hill
The rough and gruff Texan band had a reverence for their roots, but never took themselves too seriously.
ZZ Top charmed millions with their party anthems and brash music videos. Their mammoth tours solidified a nationwide following and featured everything from Texas-shaped stages to live rattlesnakes.

Keith Richards Inducts ZZ Top
Keith Richards Inducts ZZ Top at the 2004 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony-
Keith Richards Inducts ZZ Top00:03:35
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ZZ Top acceptance speech00:01:27
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"La Grange" and "Tush"00:06:51
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Members of ZZ Top Induct Freddie King00:03:01
Hall of Fame Essay
2004
After thirty-five years as the world’s longest-running band with no personnel changes, ZZ Top is instantly recognizable, by both sight and sound.
ZZ Top’s beards and blues-based Texas rock have made the band a cultural icon. Their likenesses have appeared in The New Yorker- a cartoon depicting a long-bearded police officer, captioned “ZZ Cop” - and in an episode of The Simpsons in which Bart spies three Hasidim and yells, “Hey, look. It’s ZZ Top. You guys rock!”

