Jeff Beck's Curtain Call - a remembrance by matt_mitchell48
Beck didn’t have an upbringing full of tragedy or perseverance. He was raised in England by his parents, Ethel and Arnold, and attended Sutton Manor School and, later, the Wimbledon College of Art. When Beck was six years old, he heard Les Paul playing “How High the Moon” on the radio and then deemed playing the electric guitar as his destiny. Other pickers like Cliff Gallup, B.B.
It seemed like, as soon as Beck joined the Yardbirds, he had his eyes positioned on what was possible beyond the limitations of a rock band he was not the frontman of. In 1966, he made his concerto “Beck’s Bolero” without the Yardbirds, opting instead for the Who’s drummer Keith Moon, future Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones and Rolling Stones organist Nicky Hopkins as his backing band. A year later, he formed The Jeff Beck Group with Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood, Aynsley Dunbar and Hopkins.
Across a career that spanned nearly 60 years, Beck collaborated with some of the world’s greatest artists: Bowie, Donovan, Tina Turner, Kate Bush, The Pretenders and Ozzy Osbourne, just to name a few. But there is one story about Beck that I return to all the time, when, in 1972, the guitarist joined Stevie Wonder during hissessions. It is said that an agreement was made between the two musicians: Beck would play on the album and Wonder would write him a song afterwards. That did happen.
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