jeff beck

Aerosmith guitarist managed to 'adjust the karma' nearly 40 years later.

"There is not a meaningful guitarist in the world that didn't discover the brilliance, . . . of what Jeff Beck literally created."

"He was a musician that I always loved," Joel said on stage in New York City.

Guitarist played nice with others - many others - throughout his 60-year recording career.

More than a decade after the Jeff Beck Group broke up, they found common ground again.

Few other artists made such a seismic impact on the medium.

'So sensitive, so beautiful, so incredibly creative and unlike anything you've ever heard anywhere else,' says May of the song.

He had a lot of musician friends.

He's been calling him the greatest for years.

Guitarist died after contracting bacterial meningitis.

Fellow artists took to social media to pay their respects.

Guitar great had been touring in support of collaborative album with Johnny Depp.