Guitar master Jeff Beck has died at age 78 after 'suddenly contracting bacterial meningitis,' his representative confirms.
, among the most innovative and certainly the most unpredictable of ’60s guitar heroes, died on Tuesday. He was 78.
After a precipitous exit from the Yardbirds — where he had been joined by another future guitar star, Jimmy Page — he established his own band, the Jeff Beck Group, which was fronted by vocalist Rod Stewart, soon to become a solo star. The unit proved as unstable as it was powerful, and lasted for just two albums.
He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice. Acknowledged as a member of the Yardbirds in 1992, he said in a brief speech, “They kicked me out…fuck them!” He entered the hall as a solo performer in 2009. He delivered dramatic solos on several clamorous Yardbirds hits of 1965-66: “Heart Full of Soul” , “I’m a Man” , “Shapes of Things” and “Over Under Sideways Down” . The band’s ’66 U.K. album “Yardbirds” was a veritable recital of forward-looking guitar technique.
After Beck declined an invitation to replace Brian Jones in the Rolling Stones, a fractured skull sustained in a December 1969 car accident put the guitarist’s proposed trio with Americans Bogert and Appice on the back burner. 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.
During the early ’80s, Beck restricted himself to benefit concert appearances. 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. 48 version of the Impressions’ “People Get Ready” that reunited him with Rod Stewart. The set also produced his first Grammy winner, the rock instrumental “Escape.
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