Song · Jeff Beck
“Blue Wind” by Jeff Beck with Jan Hammer
From the album Wired (1976) With Jan Hammer
“Blue Wind” by Jeff Beck with Jan Hammer appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1977. It was first released in 1976 on the album Wired. Its best result is #26 on the John Peel's Forgotten Fifty of 1977. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #26 alternative song of 1977 and #26 of the '70s.
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"Blue Wind" blows through Wired, Jeff Beck's second solo album, released on Epic in 1976, and it's the one tune on the record that came from Jan Hammer's pen. It's practically a two-man job, too, billed to Beck with Hammer: the credits hand Hammer the drums and the synthesizer along with the producer's and engineer's chairs, and leave the guitar to Beck.
Like everything else on Wired, it's an instrumental, so there's no singer to get in the way, just the British guitarist squaring off against Hammer's synthesizer and drums, with Hammer also running the whole show from the other side of the glass.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 26 | John Peel (BBC Radio 1) | John Peel's Forgotten Fifty of 1977 | 61 |
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