‘Jeff Beck’s creativeness was limitless’: Ozzy Osbourne, Mick Jagger, Jimmy Web page and Brian Could lead superstar tributes to iconic British rocker following his demise aged 78 from ‘bacterial meningitis’

Ozzy Osbourne, Jimmy Web page, Mick Jagger and Brian Could led the tributes from the world of music following the shock demise of iconic British rocker Jeff Beck aged 78.

The rock star, who simply weeks in the past completed touring with Johnny Depp, handed away ‘peacefully’ on Tuesday, his agent revealed on Wednesday night time – after  ‘all of a sudden’ contracting bacterial meningitis. 

Black Sabbath star Ozzy, 74, who collaborated with Beck on 2022 single Affected person Quantity 9 and A Thousand Shades, shared a poignant snap of the pair with Slash and Ronnie Wooden.

He wrote: ‘I can’t specific how saddened I’m to listen to of @JeffBeckOfficial’s passing. What a horrible loss for his household, mates and his many followers. 

‘It was such an honor to have recognized Jeff and an unbelievable honor to have had him play on my most up-to-date album, Affected person Quantity 9. I’ll keep in mind him fondly. Lengthy dwell #JeffBeck.

Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger, 79, mentioned: ‘With the demise of Jeff Beck now we have misplaced a beautiful man and one of many best guitar gamers on the earth. We’ll all miss him a lot’ – alongside a video of the pair performing collectively.

Queen icon and fellow legendary guitarist Brian Could, 75, posted: ‘Gutted, so unhappy, to listen to of Jeff’s passing. He was the Guv’nor. He was inimitable, irreplaceable – absolutely the pinnacle of guitar taking part in. 

‘And a rattling high quality human being. I’m positive I’ll have quite a bit to say, however proper now …. Simply misplaced for phrases.’

Legendary Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Web page, 79, who performed alongside Beck in psychedelic rock band The Yardbirds and collaborated on 1966 instrumental, Beck’s Bolero, posted a photograph of Beck alongside an emotional message,

He wrote: ‘The six stringed Warrior is now not right here for us to admire the spell he may weave round our mortal feelings. 

Ceaselessly liked: The rock star, who simply weeks in the past completed touring with Johnny Depp , handed away ‘peacefully’ on Tuesday, his agent revealed on Wednesday night time – after ‘all of a sudden’ contracting bacterial meningitis  (pictured 2011)

A lot-missed: Legendary Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Web page, 79, who performed alongside each other in psychedelic rock band The Yardbirds and collaborated on 1966 instrumental, Beck’s Bolero, posted a photograph of Beck alongside an emotional message

Iconic: Beck is pictured in 1965 along with his Yardbirds bandmates Chris Dreja, drummer Jim McCarty, lead vocalist Keith Relf and bassist Paul Samwell-Smith 

Rockers: Beck is pictured with Robert Plant and Web page in 1983

Rolling Stone: Frontman Mick Jagger shared a poignant tribute to his late buddy

Queen icon: Fellow legendary guitarist Brian Could branded Beck ‘irreplaceable’ in an Instagram tribute 

Rod Stewart, 78, tweeted: ‘Jeff Beck was on one other planet . He took me and Ronnie Wooden to the USA within the late 60s in his band the Jeff Beck Group

‘And we haven’t regarded again since . He was one of many few guitarists that when taking part in dwell would truly hearken to me sing and reply.

‘Jeff, you had been the best, my man . Thanks for all the things. RIP.’

Kiss icon Gene Simmons, 73, tweeted: ‘Heartbreaking information to report the late, nice Jeff Beck has sadly handed. Nobody performed guitar like Jeff. Please get ahold of the primary two Jeff Beck Group albums and behold greatness. RIP.’

Musician Paul Younger, 66, wrote: ‘Devastated to listen to of the sudden and tragic demise of legendary guitarist Jeff Beck. He was liked by everybody within the know; the guitarists guitarist! My condolences to his household & mates RIP.’

Kiss icon Gene Simmons, 73, tweeted: ‘Heartbreaking information to report the late, nice Jeff Again has sadly handed. Nobody performed guitar like Jeff. Please get ahold of the primary two Jeff Beck Group albums and behold greatness. RIP.’

Spandau Ballet rocker Gary Kemp, 63, wrote: ‘An absolute god of guitar. Nobody can exchange him. From rock to soul to jazz he was the best participant in all genres. Distinctive. Such terrible information however thanks Jeff for all you gave us.’

Beck’s  household shared the heartbreaking information of his demise on his Twitter web page together with an image of the star on stage along with his trademark shades and guitar.

It comes simply weeks after the previous Yardbirds star completed a transatlantic tour with Depp as they promoted their debut album ’18’. The album is nominated for 3 Brit Awards within the UK.

RIP: Rolling Stones star Ronnie Wooden shared an emotional submit 

The pair grew to become shut mates in recent times and had been seen ingesting out in Britain collectively late final yr.

A press release from Beck’s agent learn: ‘On behalf of his household, it’s with deep and profound disappointment that we share the information of Jeff Beck’s passing.

‘After all of a sudden contracting bacterial meningitis, he peacefully handed away yesterday. His household ask for privateness whereas they course of this great loss.’

A consultant for the person thought to be one of many best guitarists of all time, mentioned that Beck had been in poor health over the vacation interval and handed away at a hospital near his house in Surrey.   

Beck is survived by his sixth spouse, Sandra.

The pair married in 2005 when he was 61 and Sandra was 41 in Tunbridge Wells with Sir Paul McCartney among the many company.

Sandra designed the album cowl art work for Beck’s collaboration with Depp, 18, which options the pair as youngsters on the quilt.

Beck mentioned of the sleeve: ‘When Johnny and I began taking part in collectively, it actually ignited our youthful spirit and creativity. We’d joke about how we felt 18 once more, in order that simply grew to become the album title too.’

Beck and Depp first met in 2016 and bonded over their love of guitars. They lastly agreed to work on an album collectively in 2019.

Beck first got here to prominence as a member of the Yardbirds after which went out on his personal in a solo profession that integrated exhausting rock, jazz, funky blues and even opera.

He was recognized for his improvising, love of harmonics and the whammy bar on his most popular guitar, the Fender Stratocaster.

‘Jeff Beck is the most effective guitar participant on the planet,’ Joe Perry, the lead guitarist of Aerosmith, instructed The New York Occasions in 2010. ‘He’s head, arms and ft above all the remainder of us, with the type of expertise that seems solely as soon as each technology or two.

Devastating: Pink Floyd star David Gilmour shared a fantastic throwback snap with Beck

Rock on: Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi shared a submit in reminiscence of Beck

Beck was among the many rock-guitarist pantheon from the late ´60s that included Eric Clapton, Jimmy Web page and Jimi Hendrix.

Beck received eight Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame twice – as soon as with the Yardbirds in 1992 and once more as a solo artist in 2009.

He was nominated for a 2023 Grammy Award for Finest Rock Efficiency and Finest Rock Tune for his work on Ozzy Osbourne’s Affected person Quantity 9.

He was ranked fifth in Rolling Stone journal´s checklist of the ‘100 Biggest Guitarists of All Time.’

Beck performed guitar with vocalists as various as Luciano Pavarotti, Macy Grey, Chrissie Hynde, Joss Stone, Imelda Could, Cyndi Lauper, Wynonna Judd and Buddy Man.

He made two information with Rod Stewart – 1968’s ‘Reality’ and 1969’s ‘Beck-Ola’ – and one with a 64-piece orchestra, ‘Emotion & Commotion.’

It comes simply weeks after the previous Yardbirds star completed a transatlantic tour with Depp as they promoted their debut album ’18’

The 2 performed songs from the debut album they launched collectively, titled ’18’, in New York in October 

‘I like a component of chaos in music. That feeling is the most effective factor ever, so long as you don´t have an excessive amount of of it. It´s acquired to be in stability.

‘I simply noticed Cirque du Soleil, and it struck me as full organized chaos,’ he instructed Guitar World in 2014. ‘If I may flip that into music, it´s not far-off from what my final purpose could be, which is to please individuals with chaos and wonder on the identical time.’

Beck profession highlights embrace becoming a member of with bassist Tim Bogert and drummer Carmine Appice to create the ability trio that launched ‘Beck, Bogert and Appice’ in 1973, excursions with Brian Wilson and Buddy Man and a tribute album to the late guitarist Les Paul, ‘Rock `n´ Roll Get together (Honoring Les Paul).’

Geoffrey Arnold Beck was born in Surrey, England, and attended Wimbledon Artwork School.

His father was an accountant, and his mom labored in a chocolate manufacturing facility. As a boy, he constructed his first instrument, utilizing a cigar field, an image body for the neck and string from a radio-controlled toy airplane.

He was in a number of bands – together with Nightshift and The Tridents – earlier than becoming a member of the Yardbirds in 1965, changing Clapton however solely a yr later giving solution to Web page.

Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck performs throughout the Crossroads Guitar Competition at Toyota Park in Bridgeview, Illinois, in June 2010

Throughout his tenure, the band created the memorable singles ‘Coronary heart Filled with Soul,’ ‘I´m a Man’ and ‘Shapes of Issues.’

Beck´s first hit single was 1967´s instrumental ‘Beck´s Bolero,’ which featured future Led Zeppelin members Jimmy Web page and John Paul Jones, and future Who drummer Keith Moon. The Jeff Beck Group – with Stewart singing – was later booked to play the 1969 Woodstock music pageant however their look was canceled. Beck later mentioned there was unrest within the band.

‘I may see the top of the tunnel,’ he instructed Rolling Stone in 2010.

Beck was mates with Hendrix they usually carried out collectively. Earlier than Hendrix, most rock guitar gamers targeting an identical model and technical vocabulary. Hendrix blew that aside.

Beck pictured with fellow Rock God, Queen guitarist Brian Could in 2006

‘He got here alongside and reset all the guidelines in a single night,’ Beck instructed Guitar World.

Beck teamed up with legendary producer George Martin – a.ok.a. ‘the fifth Beatle’ – to assist him style the genre-melding, jazz-fusion traditional ‘Blow by Blow’ (1975) and ‘Wired’ (1976).

He teamed up with Seal on the Hendrix tribute ‘Stone Free,’ created a jazz-fusion group led by synthesizer participant Jan Hammer and honored rockabilly guitarist Cliff Gallup with the album ‘Loopy Legs.’ He put out ‘Loud Hailer’ in 2016.

Beck´s guitar work might be heard on the soundtracks of such movies as ‘Stomp the Yard,’ ‘Shallow Hal,’ ‘On line casino,’ ‘Honeymoon in Vegas,’ ‘Twins,’ ‘Observe and Report’ and ‘Little Large League.’

Beck pictured along with his sixth spouse Sandra Money in 2008

Beck´s profession by no means hit the business highs of Clapton. A perfectionist, he most popular to make critically well-received instrumental information and left the limelight for lengthy stretches, having fun with his time restoring classic cars.

He and Clapton had a tense relationship early on however grew to become mates in later life and toured collectively.

‘As a result of we had been all making an attempt to be massive bananas,’ Beck instructed Rolling Stone in 2010. ‘Besides I didn´t have the posh of the hit songs Eric´s acquired.’ Beck is survived by his sixth spouse, Sandra.

The pair married in 2005 when he was 61 and Sandra was 41 in Tunbridge Wells with Sir Paul McCartney among the many company.

Sandra designed the album cowl art work for Beck’s collaboration with Depp, 18, which options the pair as youngsters on the quilt.

Beck mentioned of the sleeve: ‘When Johnny and I began taking part in collectively, it actually ignited our youthful spirit and creativity. We’d joke about how we felt 18 once more, in order that simply grew to become the album title too.’