Jeff Beck

A black and white photo of a long-haired young man holding an electric guitar. Jeff Beck performing in 1969. He was one of the most influential guitarists in ...

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NEW YORK: Jeff Beck, the influential guitarist who rose to rock and roll stardom with 1960s supergroup the Yardbirds and later had a prolific solo career, ...

We didn’t really make any design," Beck said at the time. "The six stringed Warrior is no longer here for us to admire the spell he could weave around our mortal emotions. "Jeff was such a nice person and an outstanding iconic, genius guitar player - there will never be another Jeff Beck," Iommi wrote. "No one played guitar like Jeff," Simmons posted on Twitter. After suddenly contracting bacterial meningitis, he peacefully passed away yesterday," a statement on the English-born musician's website said. Advertisement

FILE - Guitarist Jeff Beck performs at Madison Square Garden on Feb. 18, 2010 in New York. The guitar virtuoso who pushed the boundaries of blues, jazz and rock ...

"Because we were all trying to be big bananas," Beck told Rolling Stone in 2010. He was in a few bands — including Nightshift and the Tridents — before joining the Yardbirds in 1965, replacing Clapton but only a year later giving way to Page. He was ranked fifth in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time." He and Clapton had a tense relationship early on but became friends in later life and toured together. "He is head, hands and feet above all the rest of us, with the kind of talent that appears only once every generation or two." Beck first came to prominence as a member of the Yardbirds and then went out on his own in a solo career that incorporated hard rock, jazz, funky blues and even opera.

For guitar based music Jeff Beck has always been revered as a musical hero and pioneer of the instrument ever since he first established himself in the ...

I believe that he and Jimi Hendrix were the most inventive and original rock guitarists there ever was. For guitar based music Jeff Beck has always been revered as a musical hero and pioneer of the instrument ever since he first established himself in the Yardbirds. He was one of the most original guitarists I ever heard. Jimmy Page, who was also one of the presenters at the Jeff Beck’s Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame induction, took to social media to remember Beck, “On behalf of his family, it is with deep and profound sadness that we share the news of Jeff Beck’s passing. One of the most renown and pioneering guitar players, Jeff Beck, has reportedly died at 78 years of age.

The guitarist contracted meningitis suddenly, his family said. British musician Jeff Beck plays guitar onstage during a performance at the Reunion Center, ...

In a series of tweets, The Kinks' original guitarist, Dave Davies, expressed shock and dismay. He spent time in bands such as The Nightshift, the Tridents and the Yardbirds, which he joined in 1965 to replace Eric Clapton. Beck, 78, spent last summer touring Europe and released a joint album with actor Johnny Depp in July.

Beck was a guitar virtuoso and innovator who was also one of the world's great rhythm and blues interpreters. Read more at straitstimes.com.

“Jeff Beck was on another planet,” said Stewart of his former bandmate. “He was one of the few guitarists that when playing live would actually listen to me sing and respond. “I don’t care about the rules. “He was quiet as moccasined feet, yet mercurial, innovative, impossible to categorize,” wrote punk-poet laureate Patti Smith. His imaginations apparently limitless.” “His family ask for privacy while they process this tremendous loss.”

A guitar virtuoso who pushed the boundaries of blues, jazz and rock 'n' roll, Jeff Beck has died.

“the fifth Beatle” — to help him fashion the genre-melding, jazz-fusion classic “Blow by Blow” (1975) and “Wired” (1976). “Because we were all trying to be big bananas,” Beck told Rolling Stone in 2010. He was in a few bands — including Nightshift and The Tridents — before joining the Yardbirds in 1965, replacing Clapton but only a year later giving way to Page. He was ranked fifth in Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.” Beck first came to prominence as a member of the Yardbirds and then went out on his own in a solo career that incorporated hard rock, jazz, funky blues and even opera. "He is head, hands and feet above all the rest of us, with the kind of talent that appears only once every generation or two.”

British rock guitarist Jeff Beck passed away at 78. Read on to know about his work as tributes pour in on social media after his demise.

It was such an honor to have known Jeff & an incredible honor to have had him play on my most recent album, [#PatientNumber9]. Jeff Beck was on another planet . We are saddened to hear of the passing of our dear friend and guitar legend Jeff Beck. From Depp’s band the Hollywood Vampires to Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page, Mick Jagger and Ozzy Osbourne, celebrities expressed grief as this news marked the end of an era. 18 features a number of original songs written by Depp along with covers of Marvin Gaye, the Velvet Underground and other classic tracks. In 2010, Beck went on extensive tours and teamed up with Brian Wilson. He also contributed to Hans Zimmer’s score for the 1990 film Days Of Thunder. The first one was a huge hit — made a place in the US top 10 and was awarded a platinum disc. He later formed the Jeff Beck Group and its first two albums Truth (1968) and Beck-Ola (1969) were a revolutionary take on the blues, paving the way for heavy metal music. Right from his childhood, Beck formed a deep fascination for the Rock and Roll genre and built his first guitar as a teenager. He later went on to form the acclaimed Jeff Beck Group with fellow music icon Rod Stewart. [statement](https://twitter.com/jeffbeckmusic?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) read, “On behalf of his family, it is with deep and profound sadness that we share the news of Jeff Beck’s passing.

British rock guitarist Jeff Beck passed away at 78. Read on to know about his work as tributes pour in on social media after his demise.

It was such an honor to have known Jeff & an incredible honor to have had him play on my most recent album, [#PatientNumber9]. Jeff Beck was on another planet . We are saddened to hear of the passing of our dear friend and guitar legend Jeff Beck. From Depp’s band the Hollywood Vampires to Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page, Mick Jagger and Ozzy Osbourne, celebrities expressed grief as this news marked the end of an era. Though the two wanted to record together, the plans did not work out and Beck ended up working with Johnny Depp on a full-length album called 18 in 2022. In 2010, Beck went on extensive tours and teamed up with Brian Wilson. He also contributed to Hans Zimmer’s score for the 1990 film Days Of Thunder. He later formed the Jeff Beck Group and its first two albums Truth (1968) and Beck-Ola (1969) were a revolutionary take on the blues, paving the way for heavy metal music. Right from his childhood, Beck formed a deep fascination for the Rock and Roll genre and built his first guitar as a teenager. He later went on to form the acclaimed Jeff Beck Group with fellow music icon Rod Stewart. [statement](https://twitter.com/jeffbeckmusic?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) read, “On behalf of his family, it is with deep and profound sadness that we share the news of Jeff Beck’s passing. Even towards the end of his life, he was still touring and performing.

British rock guitar legend Jeff Beck has passed away. Here is what we know about the cause of death.

[Beck-Ola](/topic/beck-ola)' (1969). [Yardbirds](/topic/yardbirds). [Johnny Depp](/topic/johnny-depp), titled as '18', in 2022. His family ask for privacy while they process this tremendous loss.— Jeff Beck (@jeffbeckmusic) On behalf of his family, it is with deep and profound sadness that we share the news of Jeff Beck’s passing. One of the most prominent rock guitarists of all time was 78-year-old.

Beck rose to fame with the Yardbirds before fronting the Jeff Beck Group and making forays into the jazz-fusion sound he pioneered.

Beck’s most recent project was last year’s 18, a collaborative album with Johnny Depp that featured original songs penned by Depp and covers of Marvin Gaye, the Velvet Underground and other classic artists. His projects through the decade were sporadic but notable: in 1981, he performed with Clapton, Sting and Phil Collins at Amnesty International’s Secret Policeman’s Other Ball benefit concerts, and returned with his first solo album in five years, Flash, in 1985. When you’re surrounded with very musical people like Max Middleton and Clive Chaman, you’re in a prison, and you have to play along with that.” In 1968, Beck released Truth, his debut solo album, which drew on blues and hard rock to form a prototypical version of heavy metal. Beck was only in the Yardbirds for 20 months, leaving the group in 1966 due to inter-band tensions that had arisen during a US tour. Although already successful by that time, the Yardbirds had many of their biggest hits during Beck’s short tenure in the band, including the 1966 album Yardbirds and the No 3 single Shapes of Things. He was a good friend and a great guitar player.” My dad went along and explained that we couldn’t afford it – so they waived the rest of the payments and I got the guitar.” [tweeted](https://twitter.com/OzzyOsbourne/status/1613305483250790400), “I can’t express how saddened I am to hear of Jeff Beck’s passing. Playing great he was in great shape. Often described as one of the greatest guitarists of all time, Beck – whose fingers and thumbs were famously insured for £7m – was known as a keen innovator. He pioneered jazz-rock, experimented with fuzz and distortion effects and paved the way for heavier subgenres such as psych rock and heavy metal over the course of his career.

The maverick virtuoso rock guitarist has died aged 78. We take a look back at his career in pictures.

British rock guitarist Jeff Beck passed away at 78. Read on to know about his work as tributes pour in on social media after his demise.

I’m sending much sympathy to Sandra, his family, and all who loved him. It was such an honor to have known Jeff & an incredible honor to have had him play on my most recent album, [#PatientNumber9]. Jeff Beck was on another planet . We are saddened to hear of the passing of our dear friend and guitar legend Jeff Beck. From Depp’s band the Hollywood Vampires to Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page, Mick Jagger and Ozzy Osbourne, celebrities expressed grief as this news marked the end of an era. Though the two wanted to record together, the plans did not work out and Beck ended up working with Johnny Depp on a full-length album called 18 in 2022. In 2010, Beck went on extensive tours and teamed up with Brian Wilson. He also contributed to Hans Zimmer’s score for the 1990 film Days Of Thunder. He later formed the Jeff Beck Group and its first two albums Truth (1968) and Beck-Ola (1969) were a revolutionary take on the blues, paving the way for heavy metal music. Right from his childhood, Beck formed a deep fascination for the Rock and Roll genre and built his first guitar as a teenager. He later went on to form the acclaimed Jeff Beck Group with fellow music icon Rod Stewart. [statement](https://twitter.com/jeffbeckmusic?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) read, “On behalf of his family, it is with deep and profound sadness that we share the news of Jeff Beck’s passing.

The guitarist, who died on Tuesday, could make his instrument slash, burn and sigh. Listen to tracks released from 1966 to 2010 that reveal his range and ...

For all his speed and dexterity, Beck never underestimated the beauty of a sustained melody. This gracious latter-day reunion for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is noisy, flashy, virtuosic and over the top in exactly the right proportions. Beck offers a stately, fanfare-like guitar hook after the first verse, then engages Stewart more and more: taking over the melody with note-bending variations, surging up from below, goading Stewart to shout and leap into falsetto. It gives Beck room to peal some clarion melodies and then attack them with trills, bent notes, blues licks and dissonances. His solo eases up to a high note and then casually trickles down, continuing through the track to garland Wonder’s vocals with little slides and curlicues, reveling in the song’s sophisticated chord progression. Beck’s electric guitar opens with twangy rockabilly syncopation, sets up the choppy piano groove and pointedly spurs things along. The song gallops from the get-go, as Beck answers his own power chords with countermelodies high and low. Beck’s lead guitar takes over for the entire last minute, melding rockabilly and something like raga, leaving the rest of the band to whoop along. Beck’s instrumentals moved to the forefront in the 1970s, as his material shifted toward jazz-rock. He could make his Stratocaster sound icy, searing, slashing and otherworldly in the course of a single track. It sparred with singers for the spotlight. The guitarist, who died on Tuesday, could make his instrument slash, burn and sigh.

Virtuoso musician who took the guitar in new directions with a firework display of contrasting techniques and textures.

After the Jeff Beck Band ended, he formed the “power trio” Beck, Bogert and Appice in 1973 (his bandmates being ex-members of Vanilla Fudge), but the project failed to match expectations and they split in 1974. [Curtis Mayfield](https://www.theguardian.com/news/1999/dec/28/guardianobituaries)’s People Get Ready, and the track Escape won Beck the first of his eight Grammy awards. [George Martin](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/mar/09/george-martin-obituary). [Evil Hearted You](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y2ayUzXcec) (UK No 3), Shapes of Things (UK No 3) and [Over Under Sideways Down](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4DdAs0PddQ) (UK No 10). It featured Page, the Who’s drummer Keith Moon and the future Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones (indeed, the musicians on the track almost became Led Zeppelin), but was not released until it became the B side of Beck’s single Hi Ho Silver Lining the following year. Page would go on to bend the boundaries of rock music with Led Zeppelin, while Beck was experimenting with different tunings and feedback effects. Beck was born at his family’s home in Wallington (then in Surrey, but now in south London). His 2010 album Emotion & Commotion included versions of Benjamin Britten’s [Corpus Christi Carol](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itJSLf_8yJ0) and Puccini’s [Nessun Dorma](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTBCqmBjNxk), interpreted through Beck’s uniquely sensitive touch. A rebuilt Jeff Beck Group released the albums Rough and Ready (1971) and Jeff Beck Group (1972), but the magic moment had passed. [Heart Full of Soul ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM1qZBFiOLU)and [Shapes of Things](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc17DqcA6Qc), while expanding the band’s musical palette hugely. As a member of the Yardbirds in 1965-66, he featured on some of their best-known hits, including When Clapton and Page appeared at Live Aid in 1985, Beck preferred to stay at home and tinker with his beloved collection of classic hot rod cars.

Gene Simmons, Mick Jagger, Rod Stewart and more rock musicians mourn the death of guitar maven Jeff Beck.

From rock to soul to jazz he was the greatest player in all genres.” [Music Radar](https://www.musicradar.com/news/gene-simmons-the-10-tracks-that-blew-my-mind) in 2017, Simmons was asked to list tracks that “blew his mind” and listed “Truth,” saying: “Even before Led Zeppelin and Cream, Beck took the blues and turned up the volume. Please get ahold of the first two Jeff Beck Group albums and behold greatness,” he said, referring to Beck’s 1968 debut “Truth,” and its successor, 1969’s “Beck-Ola.” “We have lost a wonderful man and one of the greatest guitar players in the world,” he wrote. [Wednesday’s announcement of the death of English rock guitarist Jeff Beck](https://variety.com/2023/music/news/jeff-beck-guitarist-dead-dies-1235486491/), musicians and celebrities took to social media to remember the artist and his storied career. In a Twitter post, Stewart thanked Beck for being “one of the few guitarists that when playing live would actually listen to me sing and respond.

Self-taught virtuoso was 'most devoted' of fellow 1960s guitar legends Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page.

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Jeff Beck, among the most innovative and certainly the most unpredictable of '60s guitar heroes, has died. He was 78.

At the Grammys the following year, the original “Hammerhead” and a rendition of Puccini’s aria “Nessun Dorma” received awards as best rock instrumental performance and best pop instrumental performance, respectively; the guitarist also took home a best pop collaboration trophy for his work on Hancock’s “Imagine,” with India.Arie. His musical collaboration with Depp began in 2020 with a cover of John Lennon’s “Isolation,” which was released in April, just after the Coronavirus pandemic took hold. His collaboration with Depp continued, even as the actor was the focus of a high-profile defamation trial against his ex-wife Amber Heard. 171, 1993), comprising new renderings of Gene Vincent’s repertoire with lead vocals by Mike Sanchez and hot Beck lead work, and “Who Else!” (No. After the 1992 soundtrack “Frankie’s House,” Beck issued only “Crazy Legs” (No. The mainly instrumental collection garnered a second Grammy in the rock instrumental category. The set also produced his first Grammy winner, the rock instrumental “Escape.” He returned to the studio in 1985 for “Flash,” a largely instrumental affair produced in part by Nile Rodgers of Chic; the collection contained Beck’s only solo chart single, a No. Its successor “Beck-Ola” (1969), billed to the Jeff Beck Group (with Tony Newman replacing Waller) and featuring two crunching Elvis Presley covers and the searing instrumental “Rice Pudding,” was even more potent. Martin also produced the instrumental sequel “Wired” (1976), which featured appearances by keyboardist Hammer and fusion drummer Narada Michael Walden; it reached No. At the turn of the decade, the guitarist founded a new quintet edition of the Jeff Beck Group that leaned heavily on the jazzy keyboard work of Max Middleton. 17), “Shapes of Things” (No.

After contracting bacterial meningitis, legendary rock guitarist Jeff Beck died Wednesday at the age of 78, according to a statement posted to his official ...

The infection can lead to both meningitis and a serious infection of the bloodstream called sepsis, or blood poisoning. However, it is a severe disease with a significant risk of death or lasting disabilities in people who get it,” according to the CDC. The types of bacteria that cause meningitis can be spread in a number of ways. “Even when it is treated, meningococcal disease kills 10 to 15 infected people out of 100. [an inflammation of the membranes](https://www.cdc.gov/meningitis/index.html) that cover the brain and spinal cord. Sepsis can travel within hours throughout the body, causing extremities to quickly gangrene and organs to fail. Treatment differs based on the cause of meningitis, so it’s important to know the source. Signs to look for include irritability, vomiting, inactivity, feeding poorly, abnormal reflexes and a bulging “soft spot,” or fontanel, on the head. Travelers to sub-Saharan Africa, which has a coli bacteria can be passed from mother to child during birth. The swelling is typically caused when an infection attacks the fluid that surrounds the brain and spinal cord. Call the doctor immediately with any concerns.

British rock guitarist Jeff Beck passed away at 78. Read on to know about his work as tributes pour in on social media after his demise.

I’m sending much sympathy to Sandra, his family, and all who loved him. It was such an honor to have known Jeff & an incredible honor to have had him play on my most recent album, [#PatientNumber9]. Jeff Beck was on another planet . We are saddened to hear of the passing of our dear friend and guitar legend Jeff Beck. From Depp’s band the Hollywood Vampires to Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page, Mick Jagger and Ozzy Osbourne, celebrities expressed grief as this news marked the end of an era. Though the two wanted to record together, the plans did not work out and Beck ended up working with Johnny Depp on a full-length album called 18 in 2022. In 2010, Beck went on extensive tours and teamed up with Brian Wilson. He also contributed to Hans Zimmer’s score for the 1990 film Days Of Thunder. He later formed the Jeff Beck Group and its first two albums Truth (1968) and Beck-Ola (1969) were a revolutionary take on the blues, paving the way for heavy metal music. Right from his childhood, Beck formed a deep fascination for the Rock and Roll genre and built his first guitar as a teenager. He later went on to form the acclaimed Jeff Beck Group with fellow music icon Rod Stewart. [statement](https://twitter.com/jeffbeckmusic?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) read, “On behalf of his family, it is with deep and profound sadness that we share the news of Jeff Beck’s passing.