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"Fans will know it from the cover of his debut solo album": Jeff Beck’s famous Les Paul sells for more than £1m!
The 1954 'Oxblood' Gibson Les Paul was pictured on the cover of Beck’s classic 1975 album Blow By Blow. The guitar had a pre-auction estimate of £300,000 - £500,000. A representative of ...
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The guitar on the cover of Jeff Beck's Blow By Blow album has just sold for over a million pounds
The cover of Blow By Blow, a stylised portrait of Jeff Beck playing the Les Paul, was painted by John Collier, who also created artwork for albums by Donny Hathaway, Charlie Parker, Bille Holiday ...
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How Jeff Beck’s Blow by Blow triumphed against the odds to change instrumental guitar forever
Initially Carmine Appice played drums on the early sessions, but he was fired after he insisted on having his name appear prominently alongside Beck’s on the album cover. “Carmine kicked up ...
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Jeff Beck’s guitar collection breaks records as it sells for more than $10.7 million
Underscoring Beck's global appeal, bids for his equipment came from 40 countries, with his rare Oxblood Gibson Les Paul, which featured on the Blow by Blow album cover, sold for just over $ ...
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Behind the Album: ‘Sea Change,’ Beck’s Masterful Examination of Lost Love
Album-length dissections of a difficult breakup weren’t all that unusual in the music world once Bob Dylan cracked open the idea with Blood on the Tracks in 1975. Troubadours from that point forward ...
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Two Jeff Beck guitars sell for £1m each as musician’s collection raises £8.7m
It was seen on the cover of his 1975 solo album Blow By Blow as well as being used in the supergroup Beck, Bogert And Appice, and at a 1973 appearance with David Bowie. Beck’s principle ...