ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons has commented on the nomination -- see below.

The nominees for the Songwriters Hall of Fame class of 2027 have been announced.

The performing songwriters are:

Boy George
Jack White
Blondie's Debbie Harry and Chris Stein
America's Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell
ZZ Top (Frank Beard, Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill)
War (Thomas Sylvester Allen, Harold Ray Brown, Morris "B.B." Dickerson, Jerry Goldstein, LeRoy L. Jordan, Lee Oskar Levitin, Charles William Miller and Howard E. Scott)
Lady Gaga
Shakira
Pink
Sia
Vince Gill
Ne-Yo
Grandmaster Melle Mel

Commenting on the nomination, ZZ Top singer and guitarist Billy Gibbons says, "To be nominated for induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame is a tremendous honor. The fact that songs we wrote over the decades continue on through generation after generation is testimony to the power of music and serves as a memorial to the creative spirt of Dusty Hill and Frank Beard."