Author Description

Jeff Beck's uncanny guitar playing has left its mark on blues, heavy metal, psychedelic rock, jazz-rock, and more. For 35 years, this trend-defying guitarist has been reinventing popular music while remaining a notoriously private person who refuses to authorize a biography. This well-researched, enlightening portrait positions Beck's astonishing achievements - like the pioneering of feedback - within the musical climate of the times. Chronicling his incarnations before and with the Yardbirds, the Jeff Beck Group, and beyond, the book describes in detail Beck's favored Fender guitars; passion for hot rods; relationships with Rod Stewart, Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, Buddy Guy, and other artists; love of rockabilly; landmark solo and instrumental work; and more.