ZZ Top's Frank Beard
Frank Tortorici, Addicted To Noise, 11 June 1998
ZZ TOP'S DRUMMER, Frank Beard, was born on this day in 1949 in Frankston, Texas. He began drumming in 1964 and formed ZZ Top, the wildly popular blues-rock trio, in 1970.
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