
The stories of some of the biggest names in rock music history, from the beginning of their career to the height of their success.

ZZ Top is an American rock band formed in 1969 in Groves, Texas; since 1970, the band consists of bassist and vocalist Dusty Hill, guitarist and lead vocalist Billy Gibbons, and drummer Frank Beard.

Created by a small group of iconoclastic artists in the 1970s and early 1980s, Outlaw Country represents freedom from the Nashville establishment that dictated the sound of most country music of the era; Outlaw Country has its roots in earlier subgenres like Western, honky-tonk, rockabilly and progressive country, and is characterized by a blend of rock and folk rhythms, country instrumentation and introspective lyrics.

Learning about yacht rock; a broad music style and aesthetic commonly associated with soft rock, one of the most commercially successful genres from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s.

The love affair between rock and roll and the guitar originally began with the blues, but the real key to the success of the guitarist in rock and roll was amplification. Once the guitar could be properly amplified, it took over and from the very early days of the genre, it was the sound of rock and roll.