{"id":29780,"date":"2024-06-24T18:03:55","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T18:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-june-24-1944-jeff-beck-was-born\/"},"modified":"2024-06-24T18:03:55","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T18:03:55","slug":"on-this-day-june-24-1944-jeff-beck-was-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-june-24-1944-jeff-beck-was-born\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, June 24, 1944: Jeff Beck was born"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-06-24\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, June 24, 1944 &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Geoffrey Arnold Beck<\/strong>, better known as legendary guitarist <strong>Jeff Beck<\/strong>, was born in Surrey, England.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Beck came to prominence as a member of the\u00a0<strong>Yardbirds<\/strong>, with future guitar legends <strong>Eric Clapton<\/strong> and <strong>Jimmy Page<\/strong>. He later went on to have a successful solo career, fronting his own\u00a0<strong>Jeff Beck Group<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Beck was inducted into the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame twice: in 1992 as a member of the Yardbirds and again in 2009 for his solo work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Beck won six Grammys for Best Rock Instrumental Performance, plus additional wins for Best Pop Instrumental Performance and Best Pop Collaboration with vocals. He was honored with the British Academy&#8217;s Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music in 2014.\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Rolling Stone\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">ranked him in its top five of the 100 Greatest Guitarists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Beck passed away Jan. 10, 2023, from bacterial meningitis. He was 78.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, June 24, 1944 &#8230; Geoffrey Arnold Beck, better known as legendary guitarist Jeff Beck, was born in Surrey, England. Beck came to prominence as a member of the\u00a0Yardbirds, with future guitar legends Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page. He later went on to have a successful solo career,<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-june-24-1944-jeff-beck-was-born\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29780"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}