Legendary guitarist Jeff Beck dies at 78 | world | Dr..

Reported on Wednesday (11.01. 2023) its official website.

“On behalf of his family, we share the news of Jeff Beck’s death. After suddenly contracting bacterial meningitis, he passed away peacefully yesterday,” read the statement, which was posted Wednesday evening on the musician’s official website.

The artist has won eight Grammy Awards for his skill and sense of innovation on the electric guitar.

Didn’t wait for his teammates’ reactions. Legendary Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger also paid tribute in a video posted to Twitter as “an amazing guy and one of the greatest guitarists in the world.”

“Nobody played guitar like Jeff,” Gene Simmons, of the band Kiss, wrote on his Twitter account.

Fellow heavy metal band Black Sabbath Tony Iommi also praised him as “a great icon, a genius guitar player. There will never be another Jeff Beck”, he said.

For his part, singer Ozzy Osbourne said on Twitter that it was “an absolute honor to play with him on his latest album”.

Singer Paul Young also declared on Twitter himself “distraught at the sudden and tragic death of the legendary guitarist.”

Born in June 1944 in London, Jeff Beck is considered one of the best rock, hard rock, blues and even jazz guitarists of all time, along with Jimmy Page, with whom he played in The Yardbirds in 1965., immediately after the departure of the great Eric Clapton.

Fifth among the 100 Greatest Guitarists

The duo carved out their legend with the albums and tracks “Shapes of Things” and “Over Under Sideways Down.”

Able to move from one style to another (rock, hard rock, blues, jazz) and also to constantly innovate with the sound of his instruments and amplifiers, he founded the hard rock group The Jeff Beck Group at the end of the sixties with singer, unknown at that time, Rod Stewart and with him Guitarist Ron Wood.

Stewart also hosted “Jeff Beck from Another Planet” on Wednesday. He took me and Ronnie Wood to the States in the late ’60s with his band The Jeff Beck Group and we haven’t looked back since.”

Beck then embarked on a long solo career, finding success in the mid-1970s with his album Blow By Blow.

In 2015, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him fifth on its list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.

According to the professional press, Jeff Beck was not a fan of acoustic guitars, but of electric guitars of the Fender and Gibson brands.

His reputation is also due to the effects of distortion with his instruments, a sound that was also sampled around the same time by guitarist Pete Townshend of The Who.

MG (AFP, Rolling Stone)