Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jeff Beck's Blow by Blow shouldn't have been a success. By all accounts, it was a huge risk, even in the heady, more musically ...

Whenever lists and discussions come up debating the greatest guitarists of all time, a peculiar pattern emerges. Justifiably, Jimi Hendrix is always number one, followed by the usual suspects: Eric ...

The late Jeff Beck, the hugely influential and innovative U.K. rock guitarist who emerged on the music scene as a member of The Yardbirds in the mid-1960s, was born 80 years ago today (June 24, 1944).

Stevie Wonder had the artistic wind at his back, teeming with creative energy and scaling new musical heights, when he met Jeff Beck in 1972. Their encounter at a New York studio would soon bear fruit ...

The Grammy-winning rock guitarist Jeff Beck has died, his family announced. “After suddenly contracting bacterial meningitis, he peacefully passed away yesterday,” the family shared in a statement.

His playing with the Yardbirds and as leader of his own bands brought a sense of adventure to their groundbreaking recordings. By Jim Farber Jeff Beck, one of the most skilled, admired and influential ...

Jeff Beck, among the most innovative and certainly the most unpredictable of ’60s guitar heroes, died on Tuesday. He was 78. “On behalf of his family, it is with deep and profound sadness that we ...