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This entire piece is surely a huge act of irony, or else it collapses into complete hypocrisy on Jeff Beck<\/a>\u2019s behalf.<\/p>\n We used to see this all the time. In the age before social media meant any interview could be plastered everywhere, and the tiniest comment could be nitpicked in online forums for eternity, artists seemed to have a sense of ease and freedom when talking to the press. Before the modern age brought in a plague of media training, meaning that famous people always choose their words incredibly carefully, they seemed to just be saying whatever they wanted to. <\/p>\n Sometimes that led to complete gold, like some of the most full-of-personality interviews around that gave real insights into icons. Sometimes it led to disaster as one wrong comment could spark life-long feuds. Or, in this case, it simply leads to a laugh as Jeff Beck\u2019s fickle mind was made evident. <\/p>\n In 2009, Beck spoke to Classic Rock and got on the topic of some of his peers. Reflecting back on the 1960s<\/a>, his days in The Yardbirds, and how he looked towards the future after that, he seems to be missing out on one vital bit of information when he starts talking about a band he was always curious about joining. <\/p>\n \u201cI used to get mistaken for him all the time in \u201961,\u201d he said, recalling the start of it all as simply a tale of lookalikes as he explained, \u201cI\u2019d pull up along somebody in a car and they\u2019d go, \u2018Mick!\u2019 And I\u2019d be thinking: \u2018Who the fuck is this Mick?\u2019 Then I realised it was this guy in The Rolling Stones called Mick Jagger.\u201d <\/p>\n Already, we have to take all of this with a pinch of salt, given that The Rolling Stones didn\u2019t even form until 1962, meaning that in \u201861, Jagger will have simply been a pretty boy walking around London town.\u00a0<\/p>\n But while that lapse in recollection might just be a mere mess-up of a fact, what he said next surely can\u2019t be. \u201cI was always thinking, \u2018I wonder if I could play in that band?\u2019 I seemed to fit the style, loved the blues and all the rest of it. I kept my eye on them,\u201d he said, adding with what seems like genuine excitement, \u201cLo and behold, Mick calls me up and wants me to do an album.\u201d<\/p>\n The album he\u2019s talking about is She\u2019s The Boss, Jagger\u2019s debut solo album in 1985, but Beck\u2019s memories seem to be completely and utterly blocking out the moment in the mid-1970s when he was quite literally invited to join the band<\/a>.<\/p>\n Beck didn\u2019t need to wonder if he could play with The Stones, because he tried it out, and he turned them down, and after Brian Jones died, and after Mick Taylor quit, the band were auditioning a cast of all-star players to step in\u2026 Beck was their frontrunner and then pretty infamously turned them down, branding their music as \u201cjust playing three chords<\/a>,\u201d stating that they didn\u2019t \u201ddo anything too challenging\u201d, and so wouldn\u2019t have been able to keep him entertained.<\/p>\n Seemingly, though, by 2009, Beck\u2019s memory of that whole audition and rejection was wiped. Instead, he simply said, \u201cI thought Mick was charming. He treated me really well.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Related Topics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Credits: Far Out \/ Alamy) Thu 5 February 2026 16:00, UK This entire piece is surely a huge…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":744677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3936],"tags":[77,9688,9941,269,9942,16,15],"class_list":["post-744676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-jeff-beck","tag-mick-jagger","tag-music","tag-the-rolling-stones","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116019729889663706","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}