Billy Gibbons – ZZ Top
Before making his breakthrough with ZZ Top, Billy was described as ‘one of the best young guitarists in the US by Jimi Hendrix, who had chosen Billy’s first band – Moving Sidewalks – to support him on tour. Billy came from an artistic family, his father was a professional entertainer, conductor and concert pianist, he had cousins working as set designers for MGM in Hollywood. When he was 5 his mother took him and his sister to see Elvis Presley. At 7 his father took him to see BB King. He got his first electric guitar for his 13th birthday. Rolling Stone ranked Gibbons at 32 in its list of the ‘100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time’.
