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 My Head's In Mississippi (1991 UK Limited Collectors Edition Cadillac shaped 7" Picture Disc single, also including Fool For Your Stockings, clear PVC sleeve with backing insert. This copy has some light 'tea-stained' discolourationdue to age, relatively common in picture discs from this period due to overheating during manufacture, but this does not affect the sound quality and the playing surface remains Excellent W0009P)
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ZZ TOP Eliminator (2016 UK/EU limited edition 11-track LP pressed on Red Vinyl. ZZ Top's classic 1983 album with worldwide sales of more than 10 million copies, now issued as part of Rhino Records' 'Rocktober' series. Including the hit singles Gimme All Your Lovin, Sharp Dressed Man, TV Dinners and, of course, Legs. Picture sleeve with hype sticker, factory sealed)
- ZZ Top - Pincushion + Stencil - UK - 7" vinyl - £10.00, $12.50, €11.60 (New Item) (arrived 04-Jan-2024 12:53)on April 25, 2024 at 3:40 pm
ZZ TOP Pinchusion (1994 UK limited edition 7" vinyl single, also includes 'Cherry Red', housed in a picture sleeve complete with a Bonus 'Antenna' Stencil!)
- ZZ Top - Rio Grande Mud - VG Sleeve - UK - vinyl LP - £75.00, $93.75, €87.00 (New Item) (arrived 05-Jan-2024 09:32)on April 25, 2024 at 3:40 pm
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 - Breakaway - UK - 12" picture disc - £25.00, $31.25, €29.00 (New Item) (arrived 15-Jan-2024 14:31)on April 25, 2024 at 3:40 pm
ZZ TOP Breakaway (1994 UK limited edition 12" Picture Disc single, also including Mary's, within a PVC sleeve with a card picture insert. The insert has some light wear & creases otherwise remains Excellent)
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