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FILE - Dusty Hill, left, and Billy Gibbons from U.S rock band ZZ Top perform at the Glastonbury music festival in Somerset, England, June 24, 2016. ZZ Top has announced that Hill, one of the Texas blues trio s bearded figures and bassist, has died at his Houston home. He was 72. In a Facebook post, bandmates Billy Gibbons and Frank Beard revealed Wednesday, July 28, 2021, that Hill had died in his sleep.
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FILE - Dusty Hill of ZZ Top performs during the VH1 Rock Honors concert in Las Vegas on May 12, 2007. ZZ Top has announced that Hill, one of the Texas blues trio s bearded figures and bassist, has died at his Houston home. He was 72. In a Facebook post, bandmates Billy Gibbons and Frank Beard revealed Wednesday, July 28, 2021, that Hill had died in his sleep.
ZZ Top Legend Dusty Hill Dead at 72
ZZ Top icon Dusty Hill has died at age 72. According to bandmates Billy Gibbons and Frank Beard, Hill passed away in his Houston, Texas, home. We are saddened by the news today that our Compadre, Dusty Hill, has passed away in his sleep at home in Houston, TX,” the surviving ZZ Top members write. “We, along with legions of ZZ Top fans around the world, will miss your steadfast presence, your good nature and enduring commitment to providing that monumental bottom to the Top . We will forever be connected to that Blues Shuffle in C. You will be missed greatly, amigo.
Dusty Hill Dies, Legendary ZZ Top Bassist Was 72
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Dusty Hill Dies, Legendary ZZ Top Bassist Was 72
Dusty Hill, the bearded musician who played bass for ZZ Top for over 50 years, has passed away at 72 years old.
It s a sad day in the music world as ZZ Top bassist
Dusty Hill has passed away. Hill, ,who played with the legendary blues-rock trio for more than five decades, reportedly died on Tuesday du eot unknown causes. His passing was confirmed by his rep, who said Hill died at the age of 72. We are saddened by the news today that our Compadre, Dusty Hill, has passed away in his sleep at home in Houston, Texas, Hill s fellow
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ZZ Top’s bearded bassist Dusty Hill dies in his sleep at 72
The band, whose concert in 1977 was the first event ever held the Cumberland County Civic Center in Portland, had such hits as La Grange, Tush, Legs and Gimme All Your Lovin .
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Dusty Hill, left, and Billy Gibbons from the rock band ZZ Top perform at the Glastonbury music festival in Somerset, England, in 2016. ZZ Top has announced that Hill, one of the Texas blues trio s bearded figures and bassist, has died at his Houston home. He was 72. Jonathan Short/Invision/Associated Press
ZZ Top has announced that Dusty Hill, one of the Texas blues trio s bearded figures and bassist, has died at his Houston home. He was 72. Photo: AP
ZZ Top’s Dusty Hill, the long-bearded bassist for the million-selling Texas blues rock trio known for such hits as
Legs and
Gimme All Your Lovin , has died at age 72.
In a Facebook post Wednesday (July 28), guitarist Billy Gibbons and drummer Frank Beard said Hill died in his sleep. They didn’t give a cause of death, but a July 21 post on the band s website said Hill was on a short detour back to Texas, to address a hip issue”. At that time, the band said that its longtime guitar tech, Elwood Francis, would fill in on bass, slide guitar and harmonica.