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Source: https://www.musicradar.com/artists/we-discovered-pretty-early-on-that-we-were-not-going-to-succeed-by-trying-to-emulate-the-likes-of-bob-dylan-there-are-some-very-strange-things-on-zz-top-records-billy-gibbons-on-zzs-blues-roots-80s-mega-hits-and-their-unique-sense-of-weird