{"id":4097,"date":"2026-08-18T20:47:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T20:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trustedmovinggroups.com\/?p=4097"},"modified":"2026-08-18T20:47:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T20:47:50","slug":"frank-beard-rock-roll-hall-of-fame-drummer-of-zz-top-dies-at-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trustedmovinggroups.com\/?p=4097","title":{"rendered":"Frank Beard, Rock &#038; Roll Hall of Fame drummer of ZZ Top, dies at 77"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Frank Beard, the drummer for the Texas boogie-rock trio ZZ Top who kept the tempo for the band\u2019s biggest hits like \u201cSharp Dressed Man,\u201d \u201cLegs\u201d and \u201cGimme All Your Lovin,\u2019\u201d has died. He was 77.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/trustedmovinggroups.com\/?p=4095\">2 workers killed as explosions and fire tear through Ohio industrial building<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Beard was in hospice care when he died Tuesday at his ranch in Richmond, Texas, with family members at his side, according to publicist Bob Merlis. Band co-founder and guitarist Billy Gibbons, on tour with bassist Elwood Francis, hailed Beard in a statement.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cToday, Elwood and I lost a great friend and collaborator, and the world lost one of the most naturally innovative drummers and a great and true son of Texas,\u201d Gibbons said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis signature backbeat was key to keeping ZZ on top. The band of which he was part for six decades is going to keep on keeping on as he had wished,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/trustedmovinggroups.com\/?p=4093\">Trump administration moves to rescind rule that protects millions of acres of national forest<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ZZ Top sold more than 50 million records and had six singles that reached No. 1 on Billboard\u2019s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart. Seven of their albums have been in the Billboard 200\u2019s Top 10 and they earned three Grammy Award nominations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve found the people I was meant to play with,\u201d Beard says in the 2019 documentary \u201cZZ Top: That Little Ol\u2019 Band from Texas.\u201d \u201cI never wanted to quit, and never wanted to get fired.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/trustedmovinggroups.com\/?p=4091\">Ravens\u2019 Calais Campbell finds refuge in football after family tragedy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Beard, the drummer for the Texas boogie-rock trio ZZ Top who kept the tempo for the band\u2019s biggest hits like \u201cSharp Dressed Man,\u201d \u201cLegs\u201d and \u201cGimme All Your Lovin,\u2019\u201d has died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop-culture-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Frank Beard, Rock &amp; 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