From ZZ Top to Steve McQueen: Cool Gets Cooler

Rabbit feet, lucky coins, worry stones—carrying talismans is nothing new. They are often sentimental in some way, and always special to their owners. ZZ Top guitarist Billy Gibbons wears Steve McQueen’s bottle opener on a chain around his neck, exponentially increasing his cool factor. Not that Gibbons isn’t cool in his own right—the blues rock legend moonlights as an actor on Fox’s Bones (said bottle opener was spotted last night at Fox hangout Bull and Bear in New York’s Waldorf Astoria). But Steve McQueen had more cool in his little bottle opener than most of us manage to cultivate in a lifetime.