Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Jeff Beck accomplished so much during his decades-long musical ...

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 ...

The late guitar hero thought he’d been invited to jam for a weekend in the mid ’70s. He didn’t realize Keith Richards wanted ...

Beck and Hawkins also were featured on Defiance Part 1, and their contributions to the new album were recorded around the same time as the tracks they played on for the previous record. Hunter told ...

Superstition; Lose Myself With You; Jeff’s Boogie; Going Down; Boogie; Morning Dew; Sweet Sweet Surrender; Livin’ Alone; I’m So Proud; Lady; Black Cat Moan; Why ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After having stepped in to fill Clapton’s shoes in the genre-pioneering “Yardies” aged just 21, Beck stayed at least one step ...

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).