ZZ Top returned to the stage in Austin on Saturday for the first time since Frank Beard’s death, and Billy Gibbons revealed that Beard had personally asked the band to bring in his replacement.
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Frank Beard, the famously clean-shaven drummer who powered ZZ Top for more than five decades, has died at 77 in hospice care at his Texas ranch. Billy Gibbons says the band will keep going, as Frank wished.
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