Billy Gibbons

Billy Gibbons earned his fame as the frontman for ZZ Top, "that little ol' band from Texas" who wound up as an enduring American musical institution. Gibbons sang with a lascivious growl and played guitar with finesse and a flair for cheap taste, a combination so powerful it sometimes overshadowed his omnivorous taste and sense of musical adventure. Where many of his blues-rock peers shunned anything electronic, Gibbons pushed ZZ Top to be at the vanguard of synth-rock, a move that helped them become MTV-endorsed superstars in the early 1980s with such hits as "Sharp Dressed M...