Make no mistake, while he never received such incendiary levels of popularity as Eric Clapton or Jimmy Page – his predecessor and successor respectively in The Yardbirds – Jeff Beck was without doubt ...

The guitarist, who died on Tuesday, could make his instrument slash, burn and sigh. Listen to tracks released from 1966 to 2010 that reveal his range and intensity. By Jon Pareles Songs could barely ...

The two great fuzz-guitar riffs of 1965 were recorded just a few weeks apart, and Jeff Beck got there first, laying down his decade-defining, sitar-aping line on this hit before Keith Richards stomped ...

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 ...

Jeff Beck, who died suddenly at the age of 78, was among the first and last of rock music’s epic guitar heroes. He played according to his own rules, with styles as unpredictable as the diverse genres ...

If it weren’t for Jeff Beck — the guitar god who died suddenly at 78 on Wednesday after contracting bacterial meningitis — then Stevie Wonder wouldn’t have had one of his biggest hits. Indeed, ...

Jeff Beck found fame early in his career. He starred for the Yardbirds when Clapton left the group. When he tired of that group, he started the Jeff Beck Group and recorded two groundbreaking albums ...

Johnny Depp and Jeff Beck's forthcoming album, titled 18, is set to be released on July 15 Peter Mikelbank has been People Magazine's Special Correspondent in Paris since 1990. Nicholas Rice is a ...