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I woke up this morning to the sad news of Jeff Beck's death.
He has featured large in these pages on a few occasions, a reminder will follow this.

But first an out take from the BBC website :-

Born Geoffrey Arnold Beck in Wallington, South London, the musician fell in love with Rock and Roll as a child, and built his first guitar as a teenager.
"The guy next door said, 'I'll build you a solid body guitar for five pounds'," he later told Rock Cellar Magazine. "Five pounds, which to me was 500 back then [so] I went ahead and did it [myself].
"The first one I built was in 1956, because Elvis was out, and everything that you heard about pop music was guitar."
After a short stint at Wimbledon Art College, he left to play with shock-rocker Screaming Lord Sutch and the Tridents.
When Eric Clapton left the Yardbirds in 1965, Jimmy Page suggested hiring Beck - and he went on to play on hits like 'I'm A Man' and 'Shapes Of Things', where his pioneering use of feedback influenced musicians like Paul McCartney and Jimi Hendrix.
"That [technique] came as an accident," he later told BBC Radio 2's Johnnie Walker.
"We played larger venues, around about '64-'65, and the PA was inadequate. So we cranked up the level and then found out that feedback would happen.
"I started using it because it was controllable - you could play tunes with it. I did this once at Staines Town Hall with the Yardbirds and afterwards, this guy says, 'You know that funny noise that wasn't supposed to be there? I'd keep that in if I were you.'
"So I said, 'It was deliberate mate. Go away'."

➤ Replay some of his music from my blogs - 

"People Get Ready" with Rod Stewart (click) 

And quite recently with Tal Wilkenfeld (click here) includes Rick Beato tribute link. 

"Hi Ho Silver Lining" Jeff Beck - thanks for all the superb music.