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JOHN FLETCHER looks back at the three years when punk exploded in York - from 1977-79 - and the bands that made it happen ...
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Never meet your heroes, they say. Unless that hero was guitar god Jeff Beck, who died Tuesday after contracting meningitis. Here’s what he was like.
Jeff Beck’s Blow by Blow shouldn’t have been a success. By all accounts, it was a huge risk, even in the heady, more musically adventurous era of the mid-’70s. It was an instrumental album ...
Christie’s Jeff Beck Auction offers a revealing look at numerous iconic instruments from the guitar hero’s entire career – from the Yardbirds to Johnny Depp ...
It is jarring to refer to Jeff Beck, guitarist supreme, in the past tense. When a prominent musician dies, the overdone, rote homages pour out. In Beck’s case, these tributes have been entirely ...
Joe Satriani explains how his career — and the paths of many others — wouldn't exist without the work of the late Jeff Beck in a tribute.
JOHNNY Depp has been left “devastated” after Jeff Beck’s death, having been “by the star’s bedside” before his passing. Movie star Johnny Depp was “was by … ...
Jeff Beck, a guitar virtuoso who pushed the boundaries of blues, jazz and rock ‘n’ roll, influencing generations of shredders along the way and becoming known as the guitar player’s guitar ...
Beck, whose died this week 78 of bacterial meningitis, would go on to play with the Yardbirds during its most successful incarnation. He soon left the band to form the Jeff Beck Group. In both, he ...
It’s difficult to describe Jeff Beck’s outlandish musical innovation to non-musicians without simply playing Jeff Beck’s music as an example. One simply has to experience it. Here are 10 ...
Harvey Goldsmith recalls Jeff Beck as a "difficult" but "good-natured soul" during their professional time together.