Jeff Beck
Jeff Beck once rang his producer to ask for another try at a guitar solo, a couple of months after the album was finished. The producer was George Martin, and the album was Blow by Blow. Martin, bemused, answered: "I'm sorry, Jeff, but the record is in the shops!" That restless perfectionism ran through the life of Beck, an English guitarist who was born Geoffrey Arnold Beck on the 24th of June 1944 and died on the 10th of January 2023. Fellow players often called him a guitarist's guitarist. His releases ranged across blues rock, hard rock, jazz fusion, and a blend of guitar-rock and electronica. Yet he never built the commercial success that many of his contemporaries and bandmates enjoyed. This documentary asks why so many of his bands fell apart, how he made a guitar sound like a human voice, and why such an uneven career earned so much reverence.
At the age of six, a boy in Surrey heard an electric guitar on the radio for the first time. It was Les Paul playing "How High the Moon." He asked his mother what the sound was. She replied that it was an electric guitar and was all tricks. His answer was "That's for me."
The boy was born to Arnold and Ethel Beck at 206 Demesne Road, Wallington, Surrey. At ten he sang in a church choir, and he went on to attend Sutton Manor School and Sutton East County Secondary Modern School. Cliff Gallup, lead guitarist with Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps, became an early influence. B. B. King and Steve Cropper followed, and Beck also held Lonnie Mack in high regard as an unjustly overlooked rock guitarist.
As a teenager, Beck learned on a borrowed guitar. He also tried several times to build his own. One attempt used glued and bolted cigar boxes for the body and an unsanded fence post for the neck. Model aircraft control lines served as strings, and the frets were simply painted on.
After school he attended Wimbledon School of Art, now Wimbledon College of Arts. He worked briefly as a painter and decorator, a groundsman on a golf course, and a car paint sprayer. Meanwhile he played in a succession of groups. In 1963, Ian Stewart of the Rolling Stones introduced him to R&B, and Beck formed The Nightshift, who played the 100 Club in Oxford Street.
The Rumbles, a Croydon band, took him on for a short spell as lead guitarist. They played Gene Vincent and Buddy Holly songs, and Beck showed a talent for mimicking other players' styles. Later in 1963 he joined the Tridents from the Chiswick area. Of that band he recalled: "They were really my scene because they were playing flat-out R&B, like Jimmy Reed stuff, and we supercharged it all up and made it really rocky." In 1964 he played session guitar on a Parlophone single by the Fitz and Startz, "I'm Not Running Away." That year he also joined Screaming Lord Sutch and the Savages for the recording of "Dracula's Daughter."
In March 1965 the Yardbirds recruited Beck to succeed Eric Clapton. Fellow session musician Jimmy Page had recommended him, though Page had been the band's first choice. Most of the group's Top 40 hits were recorded during Beck's 20-month tenure. That short stay left room for only one full album, Roger the Engineer, released in 1966. In the United States it was titled Over Under Sideways Down.
In May 1966 Beck recorded an instrumental called "Beck's Bolero" without the Yardbirds. Page played 12-string rhythm guitar, Keith Moon played drums, John Paul Jones played bass, and Nicky Hopkins played piano. The next month Page joined the Yardbirds himself, first on bass and later as a second lead guitarist. That twin-guitar lineup was filmed playing "Stroll On," an adaptation of "Train Kept A-Rollin'," for Michelangelo Antonioni's 1966 film Blowup.
Beck's time in the band ended during a tour of the United States. He was fired for repeatedly failing to show up and for the trouble caused by his perfectionism and explosive temper on stage. He never forgot it. When the Yardbirds entered the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992, Beck joked in his acceptance speech that he could hardly be proud, because they had kicked him out.
In 1967, producer Mickie Most invited Beck to record several solo singles, including "Hi Ho Silver Lining" and "Tallyman." Beck sang on both. He then formed the Jeff Beck Group, with Rod Stewart on vocals, Ronnie Wood on bass, Nicky Hopkins on piano, and Aynsley Dunbar on drums. Micky Waller later replaced Dunbar.
Their first album, Truth, appeared in August 1968, five months before the first Led Zeppelin record. It included "You Shook Me," written by Willie Dixon and first recorded by Muddy Waters. Led Zeppelin's debut covered the same song with a similar arrangement. Truth sold well and reached No. 15 on the Billboard charts. Beck-Ola followed in July 1969, with Tony Newman now on drums. It was well received but did less well, both commercially and critically. Resentment and incidents on tour broke the group up that same July.
Other bands wanted him. In his autobiography, Nick Mason recalls that Pink Floyd hoped to recruit Beck in 1967 after Syd Barrett left, but "none of us had the nerve to ask him." In 1969, after the death of Brian Jones, the Rolling Stones approached him.
Beck had other plans. In September 1969 he teamed up with Tim Bogert and Carmine Appice, the rhythm section of Vanilla Fudge. In December, a car accident near Maidstone fractured his skull. The plan waited two-and-a-half years, and Bogert and Appice formed Cactus in the meantime. Looking back, Beck said of the decade: "The electronic equipment just wasn't up to the sounds I had in my head."
In 1970, once healthy again, Beck began forming a band with drummer Cozy Powell. He, Powell, and Most flew to the United States and recorded tracks at Motown's Studio A in Hitsville U.S.A. with the Funk Brothers, Motown's in-house band. Those recordings stayed unreleased. By April 1971 the new line-up was complete, with Bobby Tench, Max Middleton, and Clive Chaman. It played as the Jeff Beck Group but sounded very different.
The album Rough and Ready arrived in October 1971. Beck wrote or co-wrote six of its seven tracks, and its mix of soul, rhythm-and-blues, and jazz pointed toward his later direction. A second album, Jeff Beck Group, was recorded in Memphis in July 1972 with Steve Cropper as producer. Five of its nine tracks were covers of American artists. One, "I Got to Have a Song," was the first of four Stevie Wonder compositions Beck would cover. Soon after, his management announced that the members' styles had blended well for individuals but had not produced a new musical style of the strength they had sought.
Beck then turned to Bogert and Appice, free after the end of Cactus, and the power trio Beck, Bogert & Appice emerged. Appice sang, with Bogert and Beck contributing now and then. Their album came out in April 1973. Critics admired their instrumental skill, but only their cover of Wonder's "Superstition" sold well.
On the 3rd of July 1973, Beck joined David Bowie onstage for "The Jean Genie" and "Around and Around." The show was filmed and finally released in the 2022 Bowie documentary Moonage Daydream. The trio dissolved in April 1974, before their second studio album, produced by Jimmy Miller, was finished. A live album recorded in Japan in 1973 stayed on the shelf until February 1975.
In October 1974, at AIR Studios in London, Beck began recording instrumental sessions with keyboardist Max Middleton, bassist Phil Chen, and drummer Richard Bailey. George Martin produced and arranged. These sessions became Blow by Blow, released in March 1975. The album showcased Beck's technical command of jazz-rock, reached number four in the charts, and remains his most commercially successful release.
For a live band he kept Middleton and added bassist Wilbur Bascomb and the noted session drummer Bernard "Pretty" Purdie. A small unannounced gig at The Newlands Tavern in Peckham, London, preceded a United States tour in April and May 1975, mostly supporting the Mahavishnu Orchestra.
In a May 1975 show at the Music Hall in Cleveland, an early talk box frustrated him during his arrangement of the Beatles' "She's a Woman." After breaking a string, he tossed his legendary Yardbirds-era Fender Stratocaster off the stage. The talk box followed. He finished the show on a Les Paul, without the box.
The same tour took him to Yuya Uchida's "World Rock Festival" in Japan. There Beck played eight songs with Purdie, played a guitar and drum instrumental with Johnny Yoshinaga, and joined a closing jam with bassist Felix Pappalardi of Mountain and vocalist Akira "Joe" Yamanaka of the Flower Travellin' Band. Only the set with Purdie was recorded and released.
Back in the studio, Beck made Wired, released in 1976. It paired him with drummer and composer Narada Michael Walden, who had played in the Mahavishnu Orchestra, and keyboardist Jan Hammer. The album's jazz-rock fusion sounded much like the work of those two collaborators. To promote it, Beck joined the Jan Hammer Group, opened for Alvin Lee at The Roundhouse in May 1976, and then set out on a seven-month world tour. The live album Jeff Beck with the Jan Hammer Group Live followed in 1977.
Around then Beck was a tax exile, living in the United States until he returned to the United Kingdom in the autumn of 1977. In spring 1978 he rehearsed with bassist Stanley Clarke and drummer Gerry Brown for the Knebworth Festival. The appearance was cancelled when Brown dropped out. In November 1978, Beck toured Japan for three weeks with Clarke and newcomers Tony Hymas on keyboards and Simon Phillips on drums.
A new studio album began at the Who's Ramport Studios in London and continued sporadically through 1979. The result, There & Back, appeared in June 1980. It had three tracks written and recorded with Hammer and five written with Hymas. Mo Foster replaced Clarke on bass for the album and the tours that followed. Beck's next studio album, Flash, would not arrive until 1985.
In 1981, Beck stood beside Eric Clapton at the Secret Policeman's Other Ball benefit shows sponsored by Amnesty International. Together they played "Crossroads" and "Further on Up the Road," and Beck added his own arrangement of Stevie Wonder's "Cause We've Ended As Lovers." In the all-star finale of "I Shall Be Released," he joined Clapton, Sting, Phil Collins, Donovan, and Bob Geldof. The resulting album and film were worldwide successes in 1982. Another benefit, the ARMS Concert for multiple sclerosis, put Beck, Clapton, and Jimmy Page together on "Tulsa Time" and "Layla."
Flash, released in 1985, used a variety of vocalists. The most notable was his former bandmate Rod Stewart, singing Curtis Mayfield's "People Get Ready." It became a hit single, and its video got heavy rotation on MTV. The two played a few dates together, but a full tour never happened. In 1988, Beck also played guitar in the film Twins, alongside singer Nicolette Larson.
His recording schedule through these years was sparse, partly because of a long battle with tinnitus. After a four-year break he returned to instrumental music with Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop in 1989. It was the first album on which he played fingerstyle, having put down the plectrum. It was only his third album of the 1980s.
The 1990s brought a busier calendar. In 1990, Beck played the main solo on the title song of Jon Bon Jovi's solo debut, Blaze of Glory. That year he also featured on Hans Zimmer's score for the film Days of Thunder. He played lead guitar on Roger Waters' 1992 album Amused to Death, on Kate Bush's The Red Shoes in 1993, and on Beverley Craven's Love Scenes the same year. His own releases included the 1992 instrumental soundtrack Frankie's House and Crazy Legs in 1993, a tribute to Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps and their guitarist Cliff Gallup. In 1993 he also joined Paul Rodgers of Bad Company on Muddy Water Blues, a tribute to Muddy Waters.
One rehearsal cost him dearly. In 1992 Beck rehearsed in Paris with Guns N' Roses but did not play the concert. A cymbal crash from drummer Matt Sorum damaged his ears and left him temporarily deaf.
Beck's next solo release, in 1999, was Who Else!, his first venture into guitar-based electronica. On it he worked with Jennifer Batten, his first female instrumentalist collaborator in touring, writing, and recording. It was also the first time since the Yardbirds that he had shared his own material with another guitarist. Batten stayed with him through the tour for You Had It Coming in 2001.
The new style paid off. "Dirty Mind," from You Had It Coming, brought his third Grammy Award, for Best Rock Instrumental Performance. "Plan B," from the 2003 album Jeff, brought the fourth. In 2004, he appeared on "54-46 Was My Number" by Toots and the Maytals, from True Love, which won the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album. In 2007 he accompanied Kelly Clarkson on "Up to the Mountain" for the Idol Gives Back episode of American Idol. That year he also played Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival with Vinnie Colaiuta, Jason Rebello, and the 21-year-old bassist Tal Wilkenfeld.
On the 4th of April 2009, Beck entered the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame a second time, now as a solo artist. Page presented the award. Beck then played "Train Kept A-Rollin'" with Page, Ronnie Wood, Joe Perry, Flea, and members of Metallica. Three months later, on the 4th of July 2009, David Gilmour joined him at the Albert Hall. The two traded solos on "Jerusalem" and closed with "Hi Ho Silver Lining."
Emotion & Commotion came out in April 2010. It mixed original songs with covers such as "Over the Rainbow," Puccini's "Nessun Dorma," and Benjamin Britten's "Corpus Christi Carol." Joss Stone and Imelda May sang as guests. At the 2011 Grammys, "Nessun Dorma" won Best Pop Instrumental Performance and "Hammerhead" won Best Rock Instrumental Performance. He also won Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals for "Imagine," from Herbie Hancock's The Imagine Project. In July 2011, two British universities honoured him. The University of the Arts London gave him a fellowship, and the University of Sussex gave him an honorary doctorate.
In 2013, Beck joined Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, with Al Jardine and David Marks, for an 18-date fall tour. Beck said that sharing the stage with Wilson was a complete honour. In 2016, he made Loud Hailer with Carmen Vandenberg and Rosie Bones of Bones UK. Its song titles, such as "Thugs' Club" and "Scared for the Children," protest the state of the world.
On the 16th of April 2020, Beck released "Isolation," a John Lennon song recorded with Johnny Depp. Beck said the release was timed to the isolation people were feeling during the pandemic lockdowns. Their collaborative album 18 followed in 2022, led by the single "This Is a Song for Miss Hedy Lamarr." In 2022 he also played on two tracks of Ozzy Osbourne's Patient Number 9. His final recording was a contribution to a supergroup version of "Going Home: Theme of the Local Hero," made to support the Teenage Cancer Trust and Teen Cancer America.
The guitar most tied to Beck is the Fender Stratocaster, which he began playing in 1969. In a 2013 interview he said, "The Fender Stratocaster was made for me." In 1987 he asked the newly opened Fender Custom Shop to build one to his specifications. It became known for its graffiti yellow colour, chosen to match his 1932 Ford Hot Rod. Beck vetoed the use of his name on the resulting "Strat Plus." Fender did release a Jeff Beck Stratocaster in 1991, which as of 2026 has stayed on the market with updates, and a Custom Shop version arrived in 2004.
He also played Telecasters and Gibson Les Pauls, and returned to them for special occasions. In 2009, Gibson released a limited Jeff Beck 1954 Les Paul Oxblood model in two finishes. His amplifiers were mainly Fender and Marshall. With the Yardbirds he used a 1954 Fender Esquire through Vox AC30s. That guitar is now owned by Seymour W. Duncan and housed in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. Scott Morgan of the Rationals shared a dressing room with the Yardbirds and recalled that Beck used banjo strings as the unwound G string, because sets with an unwound G did not yet exist.
During the 1980s, Beck stopped regularly using a pick. His thumb plucked the strings, his ring finger worked the volume knob, and his little finger worked the vibrato bar. By plucking a note and then fading it in with the volume knob, he produced a sound that could resemble a human voice. Wah-wah pedals and slides were frequent tools. Clapton once said, "With Jeff, it's all in his hands."
Before that, his fuzz tone on the Yardbirds' "Heart Full of Soul" in June 1965 was cited as perhaps the first significant use of a commercial fuzz box. Musicologist Bob Gulla credits Beck with popularising audio feedback and distortion on guitar. Gulla also describes his command of the whammy bar, which could produce "nose-diving bombs to subtle, perfectly pitched harmonic melodies." Beck's Yardbirds work and the album Truth were seminal influences on heavy metal.
Beck's own list of heroes was wide. It included Les Paul, the Shadows, Ravi Shankar, Roy Buchanan, Chet Atkins, and Django Reinhardt. He called John McLaughlin the best guitarist alive for introducing so many players to world music. McLaughlin in turn named Beck his favorite progressive rock artist.
In 2015, Rolling Stone ranked Beck No. 5 on its list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists." Guitarist Mike Campbell wrote that Beck's playing had brilliant technique and personality, including a sense of humour in the growl of his wah-wah. Not every critic agreed. Stephen Thomas Erlewine called him nearly as visionary as Jimi Hendrix but blamed the haphazard way he approached his career. Of Beck's discography up to 1991, Erlewine wrote that "never has such a gifted musician had such a spotty discography." In 1981, Robert Christgau called him "a technician."
The honours kept coming anyway. Beck won eight Grammy Awards in all, the first being Best Rock Instrumental Performance for "Escape" from Flash at the 1986 ceremony. In 2014 he received the Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music.
His private life was quieter. From 1963 to 1967 he was married to Patricia Brown. In 1968 he entered a nearly 18-year relationship with the model Celia Hammond, whose portrait appears on the cover of Truth. In 2005 he married Sandra Cash. He had no children. He became a vegetarian in 1969 and was a patron of the Folly Wildlife Rescue Trust. He also did much of the exterior and engine work on his classic Ford hot rods himself. At the end he lived at Riverhall, a Grade II-listed building in Wadhurst, East Sussex.
Beck died of a bacterial meningitis infection at a hospital near Riverhall on the 10th of January 2023, aged 78. Tributes arrived within minutes of the announcement. Page wrote of "the six stringed Warrior" and said Beck's technique was unique. Mick Jagger called him one of the greatest guitar players in the world. Ronnie Wood said he felt one of his band of brothers had left.
The funeral took place on the 3rd of February at St Mary's Church in Beddington, Sutton. Mourners included Johnny Depp, Rod Stewart, Eric Clapton, Tom Jones, Ronnie Wood, David Gilmour, Bob Geldof, Robert Plant, and Chrissie Hynde. Page spoke the eulogy and called Beck "the quiet chief." Only his widow Sandra, their dog, and Depp attended the private burial at Riverhall afterward.
On the 22nd of January 2025, Christie's in London auctioned ninety of his guitars along with more than forty other items from his personal collection. Beyond the auction room, the asteroid 38431 Jeffbeck still carries his name.
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Jeff Beck was an English guitarist, born Geoffrey Arnold Beck on the 24th of June 1944 and died on the 10th of January 2023. He rose to prominence with the Yardbirds and later led the Jeff Beck Group and Beck, Bogert & Appice.
Which bands was Jeff Beck a member of?
Jeff Beck played in the Yardbirds, then founded the Jeff Beck Group, and later formed the power trio Beck, Bogert & Appice. Early on he also played with groups including The Nightshift, the Rumbles, and the Tridents.
How many Grammy Awards did Jeff Beck win?
Jeff Beck won eight Grammy Awards. The first was Best Rock Instrumental Performance for "Escape" from the album Flash at the 1986 ceremony.
What is Jeff Beck's most successful album?
Jeff Beck's most commercially successful release is Blow by Blow, issued in March 1975. It was produced by George Martin and reached number four in the charts.
How did Jeff Beck play guitar without a pick?
From the 1980s Jeff Beck plucked the strings with his thumb, worked the volume knob with his ring finger, and used his little finger on the vibrato bar. Fading notes in with the volume knob gave a sound that could resemble a human voice.
What caused Jeff Beck's death?
Jeff Beck died of a bacterial meningitis infection at a hospital near his home, Riverhall, on the 10th of January 2023, at the age of 78.
Why was Jeff Beck fired from the Yardbirds?
Jeff Beck was fired during a United States tour for being a consistent no-show and for problems caused by his perfectionism and explosive temper on stage.
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