From Loudersound.
It’s been revealed today that there’s an official ZZ Top rock musical in the works.
It’s titled Sharp Dressed Man and will include the trio’s hits including Legs, La Grange, Gimme All Your Lovin’ and Cheap Sunglasses, and is expected to make its debut in Las Vegas in 2020.
ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill and Frank Beard will serve as executive producers on the show, which is described as “an outrageous, bawdy musical romp about a Lone Star auto mechanic who becomes a modern-day Robin Hood, stealing hearts – and car parts – with the help of his merry band of beer drinkers and hell-raisers.”
Sharp Dressed Man is being developed by Caesars Entertainment’s team led by Michael Gruber and Jason Gastwirth along with lead producers Carl Stubner and Prem Akkaraju.
Gibbons says: “We’re excited about this fantastic project and look forward to hearing our music in a new innovative context. Fans have often told us that we’ve provided the soundtrack to their lives, and this is very much in line with that kind of enthusiastic thinking.”
Stubner, ZZ Top’s manager and executive producer of the documentary ZZ Top: That Little Ol’ Band from Texas, adds: “I know first-hand that ZZ Top is an enduring phenomenon; they’re now about to celebrate 50 years of rocking audiences around he world.
“The show that Prem, Michael, Jason and I envision will utilise the band’s music and tremendous energy for audiences in a new immersive realm.
“This, just like ZZ Top, is all about having a good time at a great party and telling fun stories through their music.”
ZZ Top are currently gearing up for their European tour, which will get under way in Helsinki on June 4. They’ll then head back across the Atlantic in August for further shows in the US.
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- ZZ Top - Velcro Fly - UK - 12" vinyl - £8.00, $10.32, €9.52 (New Item) (arrived 22-Jul-2024 11:48)on July 27, 2024 at 12:44 am
ZZ TOP Velcro Fly (Original 1986 UK Warner Bros label 3-track 12" vinyl single featuring Extended Mix, Dance Mix and Woke Up With Wood, full colour picture sleeve with European Tour Dates printed on the reverse W8650T)
- ZZ Top - Sleeping Bag - UK - shaped picture disc - £25.00, $32.25, €29.75 (New Item) (arrived 11-Jun-2024 09:13)on July 27, 2024 at 12:44 am
ZZ TOP Sleeping Bag (1985 UK limited edition 7" Shaped Picture Disc single, also featuring Party On The Patio, housed in the original custom stickered clear PVC sleeve W2001P)
- ZZ Top - The Best Of ZZ Top - Blue-Jean Blue Vinyl - Sealed - UK - vinyl LP - £31.99, $41.27, €38.07 (New Item) (arrived 30-Apr-2024 11:53)on July 27, 2024 at 12:44 am
ZZ TOP The Best Of ZZ Top (RSD Stores Exclusive 2024 UK/EU limited edition 10-track LP pressed on 140-gram Blue-Jean Blue Vinyl, their classic 1977 Best-Of album re-released as part of the Rhino Rocktober campaign and now back in print. Featuring hits from their first six albums including Tush, Jesus Just Left Chicago, Francine, Just Got Paid, and more. Picture sleeve with hype sticker, factory sealed)
- ZZ Top - Rio Grande Mud - VG Sleeve - UK - vinyl LP - £75.00, $96.75, €89.25 (Back In Stock) (arrived 10-May-2024 15:18)on July 27, 2024 at 12:44 am
ZZ TOP Rio Grande Mud (1972 UK first issue 10-track stereo vinyl LP on the purple London label with matrices both ended with the '1L' prefix, housed in a front laminated picture sleeve. Great early set of southern blues rockers from Billy Gibbons and Co. The sleeve is graded as 'VG' and shows creasing and discolouration to the spine and non laminated edges but with no rips or tears and all text intact whilst the vinyl grades a strong Excellent with minimal spindle wear and a couple if faint hairlines not affecting play SHU8433)
- ZZ Top - First Album - Japanese - vinyl LP - £95.00, $122.55, €113.05 (New Item) (arrived 20-May-2024 15:22)on July 27, 2024 at 12:44 am
ZZ TOP First Album (Rare 1976 Japanese issue of the 1970 10-track vinyl LP on the blue & silver London Records label, housed in a textured picture sleeve with Japanese text biography/English lyric insert. The cover displays just a little lightgeneral wear, whilst the vinyl remains in a 'near mint' condition SLC-808)
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