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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.
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- Given name
- Arnold
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- Beck
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Wallington
- Place of death
- Wadhurst
- Languages spoken
- English language
- 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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- Jeff Beck
- date of birth
- 1944-06-24
- lifestyle
- vegetarianism
- topic's main category
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- name in native language
- Geoffrey Arnold Beck
- start of work period
- 1964-00-00
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- 188000
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- date of death
- 2023-01-10
- cause of death
- bacterial meningitis
- manner of death
- natural causes
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- 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.
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