Viva Las Vegas — ZZ Top

No Words, No Song
6 min readSep 4, 2021
Photo by Grant Cai on Unsplash

Yes, I know many would consider this an Elvis song…which it was originally, of course. But given the recent passing of ZZ Top’s bass player, Dusty Hill, who also recorded a barnstorming version of the song, it seemed more appropriate to give ZZ Top’s version an airing in his memory. (Don’t worry, Elvis is linked below in case you can’t listen to this song without your fix of The King.)

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No Words, No Song

Without words, it’s just a nice tune. Add words — now you’ve got a song. And songs can change your world. I write about some that changed mine.