Stewart and Wood left in 1970 to join the Small Faces (later the Faces), and Beck was injured in a car accident later that year, forcing him to put his career on hiatus. In 1971 he resurfaced with a new Jeff Beck Group that included Bobby Tench on lead vocals and Cozy Powell on th...
After Beck declined an invitation to replace Brian Jones in the Rolling Stones, a fractured skull sustained in a December 1969 car accident put the guitarist’s proposed trio with Americans Bogert and Appice on the back burner. At the turn of the decade, the guitarist founded a new quintet ...
Not long afterward, Jeff was in a car accident. He recovered, yet he was out of commission for a little while. After the Stewart version of the band and the two albums mentioned above with the second version of the group, Beck finally put together a band with Bogert and Appice. Kim ...
The band’s first release “Truth” (1968) performed significantly better than the second “Beck-Ola” (1969) and resentment ended the band in 1969. After a serious car accident in 1970 and a failed idea to start a power-trio with Carmine Appice and Tim Bogert, Beck formed a new ...
Beck canceled out of a scheduled appearance at Woodstock; he was in a car accident that sidelined him for over a year; and Stewart and bass player Ron Wood decamped to join Faces, breaking up the group. Nevertheless, Beck-Ola stands as a prime example of late-'60s British blues-rock ...
car accident and a surprise 1972 hit album from a reunited Jeff Beck Group, power trio Beck, Bogert & Appice’s 1973 album,Beck, Bogert & Appice, was a smash. The arrangement for the single, a cover of “Superstition,” was custom-written by songwriter Stevie Wonder for Beck to perform...
Jeff Beck holds an esteemed position among the greatest guitarists in history. Born in Surrey, England, on June 24, 1944, Beck found his passion in music at a young age. He initially discovered his love for guitar after hearing Les Paul play, which spurred him to master the instrument. ...
A celebration of the ultimate guitarist’s guitar hero, Christie’s will auction Jeff Beck: The Guitar Collection, on 22 January 2025, in Lond
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