THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.

653-ZZ Top-Legs,

1984-Number 16 single.

Best Bit-At 0.19. ZZ Top are Billy Gibbons, Frank Beard, and Dusty Hill, can you guess which one doesn’t sport a beard?

The classic line up of ZZ Top were formed in 1969, in Houston, Texas, by Billy Gibbons, born December 16th, 1949, in Houston, Texas, he is the bands lead singer, guitarist, and primary songwriter. Joseph ‘Dusty’ Hill, who was born May 19th, 1949, in Dallas, Texas, who plays bass, and Frank Beard, who was born June 11th, 1949, in Frankston, Texas, and is the bands drummer. It was Gibbons who chose the bands name, he had noticed that many acts such as ‘BB King,’ and ‘ZZ Hill’ used initials, and thought of combining the two into ‘ZZ King,’ but considered it too similar to the Blues legends name, so as he had always thought of King as a top performer, he came up with ZZ Top. To date the band have released 15 studio Albums, and sold in excess of 50 million records.

‘Legs’ is taken from the bands eighth studio Album ‘Eliminator,’ from 1983, which continued a shift towards a more radio friendly commercial sound, which wouldn’t have please some of their long term fans, who grew up listening to the more rawer Blues Rock the band had played in the 1970’s. ‘Eliminator’ was heavily influenced by the ‘new’ Electronic synthesizers used by bands such as Depeche Mode, and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.

Billy Gibbons has explained how ‘Legs’ came about.’I was driving in Los Angeles, and there was this unusual downpour, and there was a real pretty girl on the side of the road. I passed her, and then I thought,well I’d better pull over, or at least turn around and offer her a ride, and by the time I got back she was gone. Her legs were the first thing I noticed. Then I noticed she had a Brooke Shields hairdo that was in danger of falling. She was not going to get wet. She had legs and she knew how to use them.’

‘She’s got legs, she knows how to use them, she never begs, she knows how to choose them.’