The Latest Breaking News from Jeff Beck Group

The renowned guitarist’s death, at the age of 78, was announced by his family in an online statement on Wednesday.

Mick Jagger and Ozzy Osbourne were among a number of stars to pay heartfelt tributes to guitarist Jeff Beck following his death being announced this evening

Beck’s collaborators and contemporaries said the musician had ‘blazed a trail impossible to follow’ and hailed the ‘powerful influence’ he had had .

‘I feel like one of my band of brothers has left this world,’ Ronnie Wood tweeted

Fellow rock legends are paying tribute to Jeff Beck, the guitar virtuoso and musical innovator who died Wednesday

Jeff Beck, the influential guitarist who rose to rock and roll stardom with 1960s supergroup the Yardbirds and pushed the boundaries of blues, jazz and rock ‘n’ roll, influencing generations of shredders along the way and becoming known as the guitar player’s guitar player, has died. He was 78.

The eight-time Grammy-winner rose to prominence with rock band The Yardbirds

He began with bubblegum pop in the Yardbirds, then moved on to psychedelia, funk, jazz fusion, even techno – but no matter what the genre, Beck was always ahead of the curve

Beck rose to fame with the Yardbirds before fronting the Jeff Beck Group and making forays into the jazz-fusion sound he pioneered