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Jeff Beck: Jeff Beck Group
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Oz, July 1972
SINCE HIS LAST album, Beck has brought in an outside producer, Steve Cropper, no less. Unlike Rough and Ready, this one features some real songs, like ...

Who Else But Jeff Beck?
Retrospective and Interview by Dave Thompson, Experience Hendrix, 1999
IN 1985, WITH A NEW single, "People Get Ready," reuniting him with vocalist Rod Stewart for the first time since 1969, Jeff Beck was lined up ...

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Jeff Beck
Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, December 1969
JEFF BECK at the moment seems to be wandering in a musical "no-man's-land". He is faced with the unenviable task of forming a new group and ...

My Style of Cock: Being An Interview With Kim Fowley, In The Company Of Jeff Beck
Interview by Howard Parker, Chris Rowley, International Times, 1972
"IF YOU CAN’T get cunt, you want to be a rock ‘n’ roll Something so you can get it, and when you have it you throw ...

Jeff Beck: Jeff Beck Group
Review by John Mendelsohn, Rolling Stone, June 1972
Should you ever find yourself in the mood to be bored comatose, simply hop on the next jet to Hollywood, where this writer will gladly spend ...

Jeff Beck/Blue Oyster Cult/Flash/Argent: Gaelic Park, New York NY
Live Review by Jon Tiven, Phonograph Record, October 1972
BLUE OYSTER CULT had a real bad time at the big park and oh boy did they know it...one of the guys backstage connected wit Da ...

The Complete Works of Ronnie Wood
Profile and Interview by Nick Kent, NME, March 1973
REMEMBER A BAND called the Birds? Nope friend, I do not mean the Byrds, Bobby Dylan's old honchos from Los Angeles, nor am I alluding in ...

Jeff Beck The Dare-Devil
Profile by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, May 1973
WHEN he's playing nice, you couldn't possibly hope to hear more creative or more exciting rock guitar playing than that of Jeff Beck. He was the ...

Jeff Beck…In Retrospect
Retrospective and Interview by Steven Rosen, LA Free Press, December 1973
JEFF BECK IS one of those characters who is so brilliantly erratic that he is constantly set-ting the music (and journalistic) world on its ear. Mention ...

Jeff Beck
Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar Player, December 1973
AMONG GUITARISTS, Jeff Beck has few peers. Bubbly, elusive, humoresque guitar work has been his trademark since his first performances with The Yardbirds over half-a-dozen years ...

Jeff Beck: Music And Cars And Sex…
Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, November 1974
A DIGESTIVE BISCUIT is poised, somewhat uneasily, a few inches away from Jeff Beck's, celebrated nasty leer. ...

British Psychedelia: More Zits Than Hitz…
Guide by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, April 1975
It's dream-time in Compilationsville once again, amigos. This week CHARLES SHAAR MURRAY does his worst to induce EMI into issuing Volume Two in his discocartography of ...

Jeff Beck: Return Of The Lone Axe Hero
Live Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, May 1976
Jeff Beck: The Roundhouse, London ...

Jeff Beck: Exclusive! Jeff Sez Nothin'!
Report and Interview by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, July 1976
Our story opens in the flashing chrome and glass edifice that constitutes Columbia Records in New York. Their International Department have invited Sounds to attend a ...

Jeff Beck: Live Wired Beck
Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, September 1976
OF ALL the guitar heroes to emerge from the British blues boom of the mid-Sixties, Jeff Beck has been the most slippery to follow. There isn't ...

Jeff Beck/The Jan Hammer Group: Live; Michael Bloomfield: If You Love These Blues, Play 'Em As You Please
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, March 1977
BECK IN Ongoing Fusion Situation (he blows it). Bloomfield Simply Plays The Blues (he makes it). ...

Jeff Beck: Rough 'n' Ready
Retrospective by Tom Hibbert, The History of Rock, 1983
When Eric Clapton left the Yardbirds in 1965, disillusioned with the commercial route they were taking, it seemed unlikely that the group would be able to ...

Jeff Beck
Book Excerpt by Stuart Grundy, John Tobler, The Guitar Greats (BBC Books), 1983
AN AMERICAN JOURNALIST once described Jeff Beck as having an oversized heart and soul, which elevates him above most other guitarists and compared him in the ...

Jeff Beck on Jimmy Page
Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar World, July 1986
The following excerpts are from a book I wrote in 1978 titled The Beck Book, a documentary detailing the life and music of guitarist Jeff Beck. ...

Jeff Beck: Just Say NO!
Interview by David Sinclair, Q, October 1989
FOREVER PORTRAYED as a moody, maverick, Jeff Beck has blazed an erratic trail littered with the detritus of broken guitars and broken bands. ...

Jeff Beck: Beckology
Review by David Sinclair, Q, March 1992
IN 1990, IN A REGULAR feature called "The Experts' Expert", The Observer canvassed a cross-section of guitarists (David Gilmour, Hank Marvin, Brian May and others) on ...

The Jeff Beck Interview
Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, Mojo, April 1999
WHEN JEFF BECK WALKS INTO A PUBLIC SPACE, PEOPLE TURN and stare. They're seeing a fit-looking 50-something with stubble and an archetypal rock'n'roll haircut, wearing trakkie ...

Last Night A Record Changed My Life: Jeff Beck on Gene Vincent And The Blue Caps (Capitol, 1957)
Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Mojo, March 2001
"I FIRST HEARD IT sitting in an armchair in our living room. 1957. I was 12. My sister Annetta, who's four years older, had bought it ...

Jeff Beck: Who wants to be a guitar hero?
Profile and Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, The Independent, September 2002
WHEN FRANK ZAPPA'S son Dweezil showed up in London recently toting – or touting – the Fender Stratocaster torched by Jimi Hendrix at the 1968 Miami ...

Jeff Beck, The White Stripes and friends: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Mojo, November 2002
THE SHORT version: Jeff Beck is still the champ. The long version: American humorist Fran Lebowitz once wrote words to the effect that vegetables do not ...

see also Beck, Bogert and Appice

see also Rod Stewart

see also Yardbirds, The