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  Classic rock guitar virtuoso Jeff Beck dies at 78 Guitarist Jeff Beck
  was among a wave of influential English guitar players in love with
  American blues. He died on Tuesday, January 10 after contracting
  bacterial meningitis.

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Classic rock guitar virtuoso Jeff Beck dies at 78

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  Guitarist Jeff Beck performs during the 43rd Montreux Jazz Festival.
  The influential guitarist died on January 10, 2023 after contracting
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  Guitarist Jeff Beck performs during the 43rd Montreux Jazz Festival.
  The influential guitarist died on January 10, 2023 after contracting
  bacterial meningitis.
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  Call him a "guitar god" or a "guitarist's guitarist," but Jeff Beck was
  in a class by himself. Beck, one the most acclaimed guitarists in rock
  and roll history, died Tuesday after contracting bacterial meningitis,
  according to a statement released by a publicist on behalf of his
  family. He was 78 years old.

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  Beck could play rock, jazz, blues, soul and anything else that caught
  his ear. To Beck, the guitar -- at least the way he played it -- could
  be as versatile an instrument as the human voice. "I just tried to
  become a singer," he told NPR [67]in a 2010 interview. "I think the
  Stratocaster, the particular guitar Stratocaster, lends itself to
  endless possibilities because of the spring-loaded bridge that it's
  got. I can depress the whammy bar they call it, but it's actually a
  vibrato bar. And I can do infinite variations on that by raising or
  lowering the pitch. I can play a chord and lower that pitch -- six
  strings simultaneously."

  Beck was born in Wallington, England in 1944. He became enamored with
  the guitar as a child and first came to prominence playing in The
  Yardbirds - where he replaced Eric Clapton and joined Jimmy Page. Beck
  left the band shortly after, and formed The Jeff Beck Group (along with
  a then little-known singer named Rod Stewart).

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  In [69]debates over guitar-virtuosity, Beck is often listed in the same
  breath as players like Clapton, Page and Keith Richards. But Beck was
  always a bit of a recluse -- wary of the attention that came with being
  a famous musician. He explained to [70]The New York Times in 2010 how
  he felt about the music industry as a whole:

  "It's a diabolical business," he said. "I can't imagine how hellish it
  must be to be hounded like Amy Winehouse and people like that. I have a
  little peripheral place on the outskirts of celebrity, when I go to
  premieres and that sort of stuff, which is as close as I want to get. I
  cherish my privacy, and woe betide anyone who tries to interfere with
  that."

  Despite his best efforts to stay out of the spotlight, Beck was still
  recognized and acclaimed. He accumulated 17 Grammy nominations,
  including one for Best Rock Performance in this year's ceremony, and
  has won eight. He has been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
  twice -- once with The Yardbirds and once on his own.
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