Known as “the guitarist’s guitarist”, Jeff Beck was one of three electric guitar icons to rise to fame in The Yardbirds in the 1960s (the others being Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page). He later formed the Jeff Beck Group, for which he recruited Ronnie Wood and Rod Stewart and set a blues rock template that would prove inspirational for Page’s Led Zeppelin.
1975’s Cause We’ve Ended As Lovers (penned for him by Stevie Wonder) became Beck’s signature track, distilling the violining technique and stunning fingerstyle touch that would secure his legacy as one of the most distinctive and masterful electric guitar players of the 20th century.
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