Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Jeff Beck accomplished so much during his decades-long musical ...

Yes, Sea Change, Beck’s cherished eighth album, could easily have been the debut release of an entirely different artist. Some still hail it as Beck’s strongest release to date (it certainly triggered ...

Beck boasts one of the most interesting, most schizophrenic discographies of any contemporary artist this side of David Bowie. Like Bowie, Beck has built a career on restlessness and reinvention, ...

Narada Michael Walden couldn’t have known that touring with the Mahavishnu Orchestra during the mid 1970s would lead to a long friendship and association with Jeff Beck. And now that, in turn, may ...