![]() That footage from Ronnie Scott's is hard to beat, too ![]() And it is certainly not the first time they have traded licks onstage watching them duke it out on Further On Up The Road in 1981 – Clapton on a Strat, Beck on a Telecaster – is pure fire. It’s not the first time Clapton and Beck have performed a duet on the track, most notably it featured on their 2010 Together And Apart Tour, which was captured for posterity on an epic live DVD. It’s apt, then, that it would go on to be adapted by guitar’s most original player. Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer would collect an Academy Award that year for Best Original Song. Here, Beck’s Fender Stratocaster picks up the melody line first laid down by Audrey Hepburn in Blake Edward’s 1961 romcom Breakfast At Tiffany’s. The two Yardbirds have a very different but distinctive way of addressing the electric guitar and the sounds they get out of the instrument. ![]() Getting Clapton and Beck on record together is always a treat. The single, which is now available on all streaming platforms, arrives ahead of a pair of star-studded tribute shows held in Beck’s memory at the Royal Albert Hall. Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck onstage in 2010Įric Clapton has released a poignant cover of Moon River that features Jeff Beck in one of the last recordings before he died. ![]()
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