Beck’s death quickly reverberated throughout the music world, with tributes pouring in from rock icons such as Ozzy Osbourne, with whom Beck once collaborated, and Kiss lead singer Gene Simmons, who called Beck’s passing “heartbreaking”. Gave.
“Nobody plays guitar like Jeff,” Simmons posted on Twitter. “Please watch the first two Jeff Beck Group albums and see the greatness. RIP.”
Mick Jagger called Beck – an eight-time Grammy winner who was twice inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame – “one of the world’s greatest guitar players”.
Punk-poet laureate Patti Smith wrote, “He was cool as moccasin feet, yet mercurial, innovative, impossible to categorize.” “One of the masters of my generation.”
“A guitarist in the highest sense.”