As well as a distinctive guitar sound and hard-driving lyrics, the band is probably best known for its distinctive look. Gibbons and Hill are always pictured wearing sunglasses, trenchcoats and their trademark waist-length beards. (Frank Beard, interestingly, does not wear a beard.) In 1984, the Gillette company offered Gibbons and Hill $1 million apiece to shave their beards for a commercial, but they declined.
Their biggest hit was the 1983 album Eliminator, boosted to prominence by music videos for the tracks "Gimme All Your Lovin'", "Legs" and "Sharp Dressed Man".
Discography:
- ZZ Top's First Album (1970)
- Rio Grande Mud (1972)
- Tres Hombres (1973)
- Fandago (1975)
- Tejas (1976)
- Best of ZZ Top (1977)
- Degüello (1979)
- El Loco (1981)
- Eliminator (1983)
- Afterburner (1985)
- Recycler (1990)
- ZZ Top's Greatest Hits (1992)
- Antenna (1994)
- Rhythmeen (1996)
- XXX (1999)
- Mescalero (2003)
- "Cheap Sunglasses"
- "La Grange"
- "Nationwide"
- "Tush"
- "Velcro Fly"
- also, the songs listed under "Music Videos" below
- "Gimme All Your Lovin'" (1983)
- "Sharp Dressed Man" (1983)
- "Legs" (1984)
- "Sleeping Bag"
- "Viva Las Vegas"