As a teenager I used to go to Eel Pie Island in Twickenham most Sundays where the Yardbirds were the semi resident band and saw both Eric Clapton and later Jeff Beck playing - both probably teenagers at the time

I only wish I could have gone there - just too young really.
Jeff Beck - another proper rock star gone and sadly, given their ages, the next ten years will see the generation that made music leaving us with nothing more than memories.

I have a very feint recollection of Jeff Beck on 'Top of the Pops' singing 'Hi Ho Silver Lining' changing the words to "Hi Ho Tottenham Hotspur'.

More sad news.
My thoughts are with his family and friends.
RIP.

Back in the day, I visited a Public House situated on the Upper Norwood/Streatham border and a DJ was present.
He played 'Hi Ho Silver Lining' but stopped the record after 'Hi Ho' and the assemblage belted out 'Crystal Palace' ! He was a regular DJ in this establishment and evidently the 'Hi Ho Crystal Palace' was bellowed out with gusto on a regular basis !

I knew Jeff Beck as a schoolboy. We were in the same year at Hackbridge County Secondary. There were 4 classes, ranked on ability. He had no interest in school and no obvious academic skills. He was always moody, difficult and unapproachable and showed no musical interest, quite unlike another contemporary at the same time, Roy Budd who played the school piano and made it sing. Roy went on to become a famous composer of film scores.

Jeff was just different. He had long hair well before it became fashionable and rode a chopper bike with cow horn handles when such things were unknown.

He lived in Desmayne Rd Wallington, opposite Beddington Park and close to where I grew up, so we occupied the same spaces but weren’t in the same circles.

Strangely the school, which was a bog standard, run down secondary modern long since demolished, also produced two other well known people. Alex Stepney and Edward Woodward both went there.

Jeff could certainly play guitar but knowing him as a boy I was never surprised to hear when he had fallen out with band members or failed to secure a place. Apparently he was approached to join the Stones at one time but couldn’t agree on what his role would be.

My wife, already worried about my health, received the news of his death very badly.!

RIP Jeff. May your clouds have silver linings.

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I too, knew Jeff Beck at Elmwood school Wisbech, maybe we knew each other too, although he was a year ahead of me.

After the Wallington Odeon closed down and was converted into a cafe, a friend of mine worked there and served Beck a burger and after eating it he left without paying. Whenever Beck's name was mentioned my pal would say 'that b****** Beck still owes me' because he had to make up the cost from his wages.

Wisbech also refers to some of the other names at that old school, like Roy Budd who went on to write many film themes including Get Carter. My claim to fame is that I beat him at marbles.

Anyway, very sudden and sad news about the great guitarist's death. Thoughts with all those close to him.

RIP JB.

Dad and I watched games standing on the muddy slope of the Holmesdale Road end. He cheered and I rattled.