ZZ Top had spent years as a band of hard-rocking old farts specializing in low-brow songs for horny teenaged boys, but they reached the pinnacle of their success via a pop-inflected song, a hot car, and a trio of girls head-bobbing and hip-twitching their way through one of the most watched music videos of the ‘80s.
Meanwhile, most of you who remember him at all knew Dusty Hill as Hank’s cousin… and y’know what? That’s okay. There are worse ways to be remembered.
A-yup. Mm-hm.