ZZ Top cancels shows until weekend after drummer Frank Beard dies aged 77

Drummer and ZZ Top member Frank Beard has died (Picture: Winslow Townson/Invision/AP)

ZZ Top longtime member and drummer for over 50 years, Frank Beard, has died aged 77.

The veteran rocker died on Monday surrounded by his family at his ranch in Richmond, Texas, while in hospice care, the band’s representative, Bob Merlis, has confirmed.

An exact cause of death has not been given, but he had been forced to pull out of ZZ Top’s tour last March due to an unspecified ‘health issue’.

As a result of the news, ZZ Top have cancelled a scheduled performance on Tuesday night in Salt Lake City and Wednesday’s show in Colorado Springs.

However, the tour will then resume this...