ZZ Top: The Marquee, London
Barney Hoskyns, NME, 1983
AS A WARM-UP or should I say boil-up bash for an imminent global over-haul, the three cosmic-hillbilly stooges of ZZ Top last week eliminated my crittercal faculties at that ancient shack of hard rockin blooze The Marquee.
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