When MTV started to take off in the early 1980s, if someone had taken a poll on which prominent 70’s rock bands would thrive on the platform, ZZ Top probably wouldn’t have ranked very high.

‘Eliminator,’ which yielded radio classics like ‘Gimme All Your Lovin’ and ‘Sharp Dressed Man’ and made them instant MTV stars. Since then, ZZ Top have released a steady stream of ...

For the record, ZZ Top is: Billy Gibbons ... having scored huge success on MTV with their chart-busting Eliminator album a couple years earlier. They were now on their Afterburner tour of the ...