ZZ Top the band, it settled a five-year legal battle with Hudson, paying him $600,000 after he proved he held the copyright to the song "Thug". Despite not selling as many copies as "Eliminator", 1985's "Afterburner" became the band's highest-charting album, racking up sales of five million units. All of the singles from "Afterburner" were Top-40 hits, with two ("Sleeping Bag" and "Stages") hitting number one on the Mainstream Rock chart. The music video for "Velcro Fly" was choreographed by pop singer Paula Abdul. ZZ Top's grueling Afterburner World Tour lasted well into 1987, which also had the release of "The ZZ
Pasta ZZ Pasta ZZ Pasta ZZ was a former Yugoslav new wave band from Belgrade, notable as participants in the "Artistička Radna Akcija" project in 1981. The band was formed by vocalist Đorđe Lukić and guitarists Branislav Petrović "Banana" Srđan Debeljković, bass guitarist Višeslav Orinčić, drummer Dragoslav Radojković and . The only recordings the band released were two songs, "F.G. & Acreppy", written by Petrović and Lukić, and "Drakula" ("Dracula"), written by Petrović, released on the "Artistička radna akcija" ("Artistic Work Action") compilation of various artists in 1981, featuring the second generation of the Belgrade new wave and punk rock bands. After