Released July 1986 Recorded 1985 Length 3:29 | Format 7" Genre Rock Label Warner Bros. | |
"Velcro Fly" is the fifth single off ZZ Top's 1985 album Afterburner. The song peaked at #15 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart, and #35 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1986.
Contents
A 12" version is featured on the box set Chrome, Smoke & BBQ.
Music video
The music video for "Velcro Fly" features Egyptian hieroglyphics (possibly a reference to other songs from the album such as "Sleeping Bag") and female dancers, a common theme in almost every ZZ Top music video. The video also has dance moves choreographed by pop singer Paula Abdul.
The video was released on the DVD Greatest Hits: The Video Collection, along with other videos from the band's albums Eliminator and Recycler.
In popular culture
The song appears in Stephen King's novel, The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands, where in the series's post-apocalyptic alternate reality of Mid-World, the song's looped percussion intro, played via a large PA system in the decaying city of Lud, is referred to as "the God Drums". In the book, Eddie Dean incorrectly asserts that the song was never released as a single.