{"id":33041,"date":"2026-08-20T23:09:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T23:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=33041"},"modified":"2026-08-20T23:09:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T23:09:44","slug":"legendary-rock-band-drummer-dies-at-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=33041","title":{"rendered":"Legendary Rock Band Drummer Dies at 77"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-start=\"31\" data-end=\"72\"><strong data-start=\"31\" data-end=\"72\">ZZ Top Drummer Frank Beard Dies at 77<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"74\" data-end=\"162\">Frank Beard, the longtime drummer of legendary rock band <strong data-start=\"131\" data-end=\"141\">ZZ Top<\/strong>, has died at age 77.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"164\" data-end=\"320\">The band confirmed that Beard died Tuesday while receiving hospice care at his ranch in Texas, surrounded by family. A cause of death has not been released.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"322\" data-end=\"503\">Beard spent <strong data-start=\"334\" data-end=\"358\">56 years with ZZ Top<\/strong>, helping create the blues-rock sound behind hits including <strong data-start=\"418\" data-end=\"487\">\u201cSharp Dressed Man,\u201d \u201cLegs,\u201d \u201cGimme All Your Lovin\u2019,\u201d \u201cLa Grange\u201d<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"492\" data-end=\"503\">\u201cTush.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"505\" data-end=\"614\">He joined Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill in 1970, becoming part of one of rock music\u2019s longest-lasting lineups.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"616\" data-end=\"775\">Billy Gibbons paid tribute to his longtime bandmate, calling him a great friend and an innovative drummer whose signature beat was essential to ZZ Top\u2019s sound.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"777\" data-end=\"815\"><strong data-start=\"777\" data-end=\"815\">Rest in peace, Frank Beard. \ud83d\udda4\ud83c\udfb8\ud83e\udd41<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ukHtrAdT3Nk?si=qgqatve37imAoIPL\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZZ Top Drummer Frank Beard Dies at 77 Frank Beard, the longtime drummer of legendary rock band ZZ Top, has died at age 77. The band confirmed that Beard died Tuesday while receiving hospice care at his ranch in Texas, surrounded by family. A cause of death has not been released. Beard spent 56 years&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=33041\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Legendary Rock Band Drummer Dies at 77&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33042,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33043,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33041\/revisions\/33043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}