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“He was in some other dimension” JEFF BECK | 1944–2023

“I first saw Jeff at a Yardbirds rehearsal at the Marquee on Wardour Street. I remember thinking he looked like a wild man. He had very long greasy hair and wore these horrible dirty jeans, like he’d been working under a car. Eric [] had been completely the opposite – very stylish, with the latest Ivy League clothes. So it was different with Jeff and he was quite rough with itgreat fun, and he was very bright, very intelligent, not at all how he first appeared.

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