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's "Modern Guilt" is a political album in the broadest sense of the term. It doesn't reference anything specific from recent headlines, name-drop any political figures or feature any kind of rally ...

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, ...

It is perhaps Beck's strangest album. Song Reader - the record made up entirely of sheet music - was played in full at London's Barbican Theatre on Sunday (July 7, 2013), with a huge cast of musicians ...