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Jeff Beck

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Also known as Geoffrey Arnold Beck

English guitarist (1944–2023)

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Jeff Beck was an American musician whose professional career began in 1964. He is recognized as a guitar virtuoso, with musical styles associated with classic rock, blues, and rock. His notable works include *Beckology*, *Open Letters*, *Outside Service*, *Prove Me Wrong*, and *Beck 01*. Beck was recognized in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame collection.

He was born on June 24, 1944, and died on January 10, 2023. His official website is jeffbeck.com, and he maintained an official store at jeffbeckofficialstore.com. On Last.fm, his music has accumulated 12,572,365 plays from 898,087 listeners.

Synthesized by Vinony from 24 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Last.fm, Crossref, Firecrawl, MusicBrainz, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
28

Top works

  • Beckology
  • Open Letters
  • Outside Service
  • Prove Me Wrong
  • Beck 01

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1970-07-08

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
898,087
Total plays
12,572,365

Tags

classic rockbluesrockguitar virtuosoguitar

Jeff Beck (born Geoffrey Arnold Beck in Wallington, Surrey, on 24 June 1944; died 10 January 2023) was an English rock guitarist. He rose to prominence with The Yardbirds and after fronted the Jeff Beck Group and Beck, Bogert & Appice. In 1975, he switched to a mainly instrumental style, with a focus on innovative sound, and his releases have spanned genres ranging from blues rock, hard rock, jazz fusion and a blend of guitar-rock and electronica. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Jeff+Beck">Re

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. An Inventory for Measuring Depression

    · 1961 · cited 28,267x

  2. Rich Feature Hierarchies for Accurate Object Detection and Semantic Segmentation

    · 2014 · cited 24,005x

  3. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

    · 2001 · cited 18,608x

  4. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    · 2020 · cited 15,938x

  5. Multilineage Potential of Adult Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells

    · 1999 · cited 15,864x

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Music

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Quotes

  • “Well, I play purely from the heart, y'know, and so if it doesn't work the first couple of hours, forget it. Unless we feel like we're somehow on the right track then I'll keep on going. That's it, really; I don't have any magic where I just press a button and it happens. It'll either happen or it won't.”
  • “I've got no particular desire to play ten minute solos. Those were never valid anyway in my book -- never. It was just a cheap way of building up a tension in the audience...A solo should do something; it shouldn't just be there as a cosmetic. It should have some aim, take the tune somewhere. I'm not saying I can do it, but I try and take the tune somewhere.”

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Official website

Home - Jeff Beck

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Arnold
Family name
Beck
Gender
male
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Place of birth
Wallington
Place of death
Wadhurst
Languages spoken
English language
Award
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Field of work
jazz rock
Genre
jazz fusion
Instrument
voice
Record label
Epic Records
Official website
www.jeffbeck.com
Image
Jeff Beck.jpg
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Commons category
Jeff Beck
date of birth
1944-06-24
lifestyle
vegetarianism
topic's main category
Category:Jeff Beck
name in native language
Geoffrey Arnold Beck
start of work period
1964-00-00
social media followers
188000
topic has template
Template:Jeff Beck
date of death
2023-01-10
cause of death
bacterial meningitis
manner of death
natural causes
copyright representative
PRS for Music
official shop URL
jeffbeckofficialstore.com
short name
Jeff Beck
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Encyclopedic overview

Geoffrey Arnold Beck (24 June 1944 – 10 January 2023) was an English guitarist. He rose to prominence as a member of the rock band the Yardbirds, and afterwards founded and fronted the Jeff Beck Group and Beck, Bogert & Appice. In 1975, he switched to an instrumental style with focus on an innovative sound, and his releases spanned genres and styles ranging from blues rock, hard rock, jazz fusion and a blend of guitar-rock and electronica.

Beck has been consistently ranked in the top five of Rolling Stone and other magazines' lists of the greatest guitarists. He was often called a "guitarist's guitarist". Rolling Stone described him as "one of the most influential lead guitarists in rock". Although he recorded two successful albums (1975's Blow by Blow and 1976's Wired) as a solo act, Beck did not establish or maintain commercial success like that of his contemporaries and bandmates. He recorded with many artists.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jeff Beck” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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