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  ZZ Top bass player and founding member Dusty Hill dies at age 72

  Dusty Hill -- the long-serving bassist of American rock-blues band ZZ Top -- has died at the age of 72, his fellow band members announced on Facebook Wednesday. No cause of death was cited for Hill, who played bass for the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers from Texas for more than 50 years."We are saddened by the news today that our Compadre, Dusty Hill, has passed away in his sleep at home in Houston," said lead singer Billy Gibbons and drummer Frank Beard."We, along with legions of ZZ Top fans arou

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  Dusty Hill death: Tributes pour in after ZZ Top bassist dies aged 72

  Musician remembered as ‘an all-time great bass player’ and ‘truly a music legend’

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  Dusty Hill: ZZ Top bassist has died aged 72, says US rock group

  Dusty Hill, the bassist in the American rock group ZZ Top, has died aged 72. The social media message was signed by the group's other members, drummer Frank Beard and guitarist Billy Gibbons. Last Friday, the group announced Hill, its "fearless" bass player, was "on a short detour back to Texas, to address a hip issue" and "trusted guitar tech" Elwood Francis would stand in.

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  Dusty Hill death: ZZ Top bassist dies aged 72

  He was with the band for more than 50 years

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  ZZ Top bassist Dusty Hill dies

  Longtime ZZ Top bassist Dusty Hill has died at the age of 72. The musician’s passing was announced by his bandmates Billy Gibbons and Frank Beard via Instagram on Wednesday. "We are saddened by the news today that our Compadre, Dusty Hill, has passed away in his sleep at home in Houston, TX,” they shared. “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 fo

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  ZZ Top bassist Dusty Hill dies aged 72

  ZZ Top bassist Dusty Hill dies aged 72The band’s bassist for more than 50 years, who had recently suffered a hip injury, died in his sleep at his Texas home Dusty Hill in 2019. Photograph: Larry Marano/REX/Shutterstock

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  ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons: ‘We're quite happy with being strange’

  Billy F Gibbons’s life’s work began on Christmas Day 1962. Thirteen years old for barely a week, at home in Houston he’d been pestering his parents for a guitar or a set of drums. Eight years earlier, his mother had taken him and his sister to see Elvis Presley; age seven, his musician father had driven him to a recording session by BB King. With rock’n’roll and the blues already in his bloodstream, it was the gift of a sunburst Gibson Melody Maker and a small Fender Champ amplifier that put him

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  Dion - Blues With Friends review: The blues cognoscenti assemble to join DiMucci's timeless vocals

  The stellar line-up on this album is testament to how well-regarded Dion DiMucci is among the blues cognoscenti.“I needed to round up the best guitarists and musicians alive and pick them from every generation, every variation of blues,” the singer explains. And he’s done just that. From Joe Bonamassa’s superb slide on opener Blues Comin’ On and Van Morrison’s vocals on I Got Nothin’, to Samantha Fish’s searing guitar on What If I Told You, it’s an aural treat best heard with the volume cranked

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  Mick Fleetwood review – rousing all-star celebration of Peter Green

  Mick Fleetwood review – rousing all-star celebration of Peter GreenPalladium, London A surprise appearance by original Fleetwood Mac member Jeremy Spencer was just one highlight of a concert where Noel Gallagher and Steven Tyler painted Green’s blues

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  Steven Tyler seen in London ahead of gig honouring Fleetwood Mac’s early years

  The Aerosmith singer was seen in the back of a car that was passing Buckingham Palace.

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