We mourn his tragic and premature death and remember the kind words, the sense of humour, the smiling face, the musical brilliance of the man who played such an integral role in the Abba story. Wellander became a part of Abba in 1975, and played lead electric guitar on 24 of the band’s songs, including “Knowing Me, Knowing You”, “Take a Chance on Me”, “The Name of the Game” and "Voulez-Vous". Sue Wilson steel dies are high-quality and precision-engineered for clean and crisp results every time. Whether it was embracing dance music, jazz or instrumental rock, throughout his long career Beck was constantly striving to find new ways to express himself through his guitar – the instrument will likely never see another like him. Sometime during Christmas morning while making his coffee, our dear friend and guitar hero Tony Rice passed from this life and made his swift journey to his heavenly home,” Skaggs wrote on Facebook this weekend.

One of the UK’s foremost rock and blues guitarists, Marsden wrote or co-wrote several of Whitesnake’s hit songs, including Fool for Your Loving, She’s a Woman, Walking in the Shadow of the Blues, Trouble and the international chart-topper Here I Go Again. Though never an official member of the band per se, Wellander was a key part of ABBA's sonic equation from shortly after their inception through to their breakup in 1982. Lasse was a dear friend, a fun guy and a superb guitarist," ABBA wrote in a statement posted to their social media pages today (April 10). He left a year later to start his own group The Jeff Beck Group, featuring Rod Stewart and Ron Wood. The legendary guitarist's death was announced by the rock 'n' roll group in a heartbreaking post online.Beck began learning guitar in his teens, and befriended Jimmy Page in this period – the two would become fast friends and later bandmates. He maintained his musical links, forming the New Hurricanes in 1990 to perform at Merseybeat nostalgia events. By 20, Rice was a member of banjo star JD Crowe’s band New South and by his mid-20s he had co-founded the Grismen quintet.

But Rory Storm and the Hurricanes were on the slide, and in the Mersey Beat poll they slumped to 19th in 1963 and 18th in 1964. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy , external and privacy policy , external before accepting.On behalf of his family, it is with deep and profound sadness that we share the news of Jeff Beck’s passing. Beck (L) seen here during the 24th Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony in 2009 in Cleveland, Ohio. In reaction to Beck’s death, Stewart wrote on Twitter that Beck “was one of the few guitarists that when playing live would actually listen to me sing and respond.