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Awhile back I was shocked to learn that Jeff Beck, perhaps the greatest rock & roll guitarist of all, had passed away due to spinal meningitis.  I've always ranked Beck alongside my other favorite guitarist, Danny Gatton.  

Geoffrey Arnold Beck…

This story starts in the United Kingdom...

The British music industry was rigidly controlled by the BBC and London’s Denmark Street music publishers. A handful of powerful managers groomed a stable of homegrown singers in the mold of Elvis Presley…