ジェフ・ベックさん死去 ７８歳 世界的ギタリスト

【ニューヨークＡＦＰ＝時事】世界的なギタリストで英国出身のジェフ・ベックさんが１０日、死去した。７８歳。公式サイトが１２日、発表した。（写真は米ロサンゼルスのコンサートで演奏するジェフ・ベックさん）
　同サイトによると、ベックさんは細菌性髄膜炎を患った後、「安らかに」息を引き取った。
　１９６０年代に英ロックグループ「ヤードバーズ」でスターダムに上り詰めたベックさんは、同バンド出身の２人のギタリスト、エリック・クラプトンさん、後にレッド・ツェッペリンで活躍したジミーペイジさんと共に「世界３大ギタリスト」と称された。
　脱退後は自らのバンド「ジェフ・ベック・グループ」を率いた他、ソロ活動も盛んに行い、グラミー賞を８回受賞した。
　ベックさんの訃報を受け、共に活動したオジー・オズボーンさんらが追悼の言葉を寄せた。
　「キッス」のリード・シンガー、ジーン・シモンズさんはツイッターに「悲痛な思いだ」と投稿。「ジェフのようにギターを弾いた人間はいない」「ジェフ・ベック・グループの最初の２枚のアルバムを手に入れて、偉大さを知ってほしい。安らかに」と記した。
　英ミュージシャンのポール・ヤングさんは「打ちのめされた」「彼は知る人皆に愛されていた」とツイートし、ベックさんを「ギタリストの中のギタリスト」と呼んだ。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2023/01/12-12:28）

Jeff Beck, the influential guitarist who rose to rock and roll stardom with 1960s supergroup the Yardbirds and later had a prolific solo career, has died, his official website said Wednesday. He was 78.
The eight-time Grammy award-winner, a guitar virtuoso and innovator who was also one of the world's great rhythm and blues interpreters, died peacefully after a sudden bout of bacterial meningitis.
On behalf of his family, it is with deep and profound sadness that we share the news of Jeff Beck's passing. After suddenly contracting bacterial meningitis, he peacefully passed away yesterday, a statement on the English-born musician's website said.
His family ask for privacy while they process this tremendous loss.
Beck's death quickly reverberated around the music world, with tributes pouring in from rock icons like Ozzy Osbourne, with whom Beck once collaborated, and Kiss lead singer Gene Simmons, who called Beck's passing heartbreaking.
No one played guitar like Jeff, Simmons posted on Twitter. Please get ahold of the first two Jeff Beck Group albums and behold greatness. RIP.
Musician Paul Young said he was devastated to hear the news.
He was loved by everyone in the know, Young tweeted, calling Beck the guitarists' guitarist.
Beck had already done pioneering rock recordings by the time he was hired by the Yardbirds in 1965 immediately after the departure of one of the band's star guitarists, Eric Clapton.
Beck helped propel the British avant-garde rock sound with multiple groundbreaking recordings, including the fuzz-filled guitar licks on Heart Full of Soul.
By 1966 he was paired in the Yardbirds with fellow guitar wizard Jimmy Page, who went on to found the British blues rock sensation Led Zeppelin.
A year later Beck formed his own band, the Jeff Beck Group, which swiftly drew widespread praise.
In 2015 Rolling Stone magazine placed Beck at number five in its list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time.