Editing Beck (section)

==Early life==
Bek David Campbell was born<ref>{{cite web|access-date=April 25, 2008|url=http://www.jewsrock.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=words.view&wordid=3FC1DBF2-9A54-4545-B7F31CC252768881|title=Rocking the Catskills|publisher=Jews Rock|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080611071044/http://www.jewsrock.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=words.view&wordid=3FC1DBF2-9A54-4545-B7F31CC252768881 |archive-date = June 11, 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref> in [[Los Angeles]] on July 8, 1970,<ref>{{cite book|last1=Martell|first1=Nevin|title=Beck: The Art of Mutation|date=2002|publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]]|isbn=9780743424486|page=1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fjlVMqXlYXQC}}</ref> the son of American visual artist [[Bibbe Hansen]] and Canadian arranger, composer, and conductor [[David Campbell (composer)|David Campbell]].<ref name=rsencyclopedia>George-Warren, Holly and Romanowski, Patricia. (2001). ''The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll''. New York: Fireside, 1136 pp. First edition, 2001.</ref> Bibbe Hansen grew up amid [[Andy Warhol]]'s [[The Factory]] art scene of the 1960s in [[New York City]] and was a [[Warhol superstars|Warhol superstar]].<ref name="rsencyclopedia"/> She moved to [[California]] at 17 and met David Campbell.<ref name="q97"/> Beck's maternal grandfather, artist [[Al Hansen]], was of Norwegian descent<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.indexmagazine.com/interviews/bibbe_hansen.shtml| title=Bibbe Hansen, 1999| author= Davis, Vaginal| work=Indexmagazine.com| year=1999| access-date=March 4, 2007| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070308155245/http://www.indexmagazine.com/interviews/bibbe_hansen.shtml| archive-date= March 8, 2007 | url-status= live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-al-hansen-1589055.html | location=London | work=The Independent | first=Dick | last=Higgins | title=Obituary: Al Hansen | date=June 30, 1995 | access-date=August 24, 2017 | archive-date=September 20, 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170920101300/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-al-hansen-1589055.html | url-status=live }}</ref> and was a pioneer in the [[avant-garde]] [[Fluxus]] movement.<ref name="rsencyclopedia"/> Beck's maternal grandmother was [[Jews|Jewish]]; he has said that he considers himself Jewish because he was "raised celebrating Jewish holidays."<ref name="Spin 2008-09">{{cite web|last1=McAlley|first1=John|title=Reverberation: The Beck Sessions (September 2008 cover story)|url=https://www.spin.com/2014/07/reverberation-beck-sessions-cover-story-september-2008/|website=spin.com|publisher=Spin Magazine|access-date=September 29, 2014|date=September 1, 2008|archive-date=September 27, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150927025528/http://www.spin.com/2014/07/reverberation-beck-sessions-cover-story-september-2008/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Beck was born in a rooming house near downtown Los Angeles. As a child he lived in a declining neighborhood near [[Hollywood Boulevard]].<ref name="rs97"/> He remembers "By the time we left there, they were ripping out miles of houses en masse and building low-rent, giant apartment blocks."<ref name="q97"/> The working-class family struggled financially, moving to Hoover and Ninth Street, a neighborhood populated primarily by Koreans and Salvadorian refugees.<ref name="q97"/> He was sent for a time to live with his paternal grandparents in [[Kansas]]; he later remarked that he thought "they were kind of concerned" about his "weird" home life.<ref name=rs94>{{cite news| url =https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/meet-beck-the-unlikely-success-story-of-a-hip-hop-folk-rocker-19940421| title =Meet Beck: The Unlikely Success Story of a Hip-Hop Folk Rocker| work =[[Rolling Stone (magazine)|Rolling Stone]]| date =April 21, 1994| access-date =July 11, 2013| author =Wild, David| issue =680| pages =79–80| publisher =[[Jann Wenner|Wenner Media]] [[Limited liability company|LLC]]| location =New York City| issn =0035-791X| archive-date =August 6, 2013| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20130806003751/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/meet-beck-the-unlikely-success-story-of-a-hip-hop-folk-rocker-19940421| url-status =live}}</ref> Because his paternal grandfather was a [[Presbyterianism|Presbyterian]] minister, Beck grew up influenced by church music and hymns.<ref name="rs94"/> He also spent time in [[Europe]] with his maternal grandfather.<ref name="rsencyclopedia"/>

After his parents separated when he was 10,<ref name="q97"/> Beck stayed with his mother and brother Channing in Los Angeles, where he was influenced by the city's diverse musical offerings—everything from [[hip hop music|hip hop]] to [[Latin American music|Latin music]] and his mother's art scene—all of which would later reappear in his work.<ref name= :"ny">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/12/02/beck-is-home|title=Beck Is Home|last=Petrusich|first=Amanda|magazine=The New Yorker|date=November 25, 2019|access-date=November 29, 2019|language=en|issn=0028-792X|archive-date=November 29, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191129082832/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/12/02/beck-is-home|url-status=live}}</ref> Beck obtained his first guitar at 16 and became a street musician, often playing [[Lead Belly]] covers at [[Lafayette Park, Los Angeles|Lafayette Park]].<ref name="rs96"/> During his teens, Beck discovered the music of [[Sonic Youth]], [[Pussy Galore (band)|Pussy Galore]], and [[X (American band)|X]], but remained uninterested in most music outside the folk genre until many years into his career.<ref name="rsencyclopedia"/><ref name="q97"/> The first contemporary music that made a direct connection with Beck was hip hop, which he first heard on [[Grandmaster Flash]] records in the early 1980s.<ref name="q97"/> Growing up in a predominantly Latin district, he found himself the only white child at his school, and quickly learned how to [[breakdance]].<ref name="q97"/> When he was 17, Beck grew fascinated after hearing a [[Mississippi John Hurt]] record at a friend's house,<ref name="lat94"/> and spent hours in his room trying to emulate Hurt's [[Fingerstyle guitar|finger-picking]] techniques.<ref name="rs94"/> Shortly thereafter Beck explored blues and folk music further, discovering [[Woody Guthrie]] and [[Blind Willie Johnson]].<ref name="lat94"/>

Feeling like "a total outcast", Beck dropped out of school after junior high.<ref name="lat94"/> He later said that although he felt school was important, he felt unsafe there.<ref name="rs97"/> When he applied to the new [[performing arts]] high school downtown, he was rejected.<ref name=nym12>{{cite news| url=https://www.vulture.com/2012/12/beck-hansens-song-reader.html| title=Listening to Beck: The Artist on His New Album, Which Isn't Really an Album At All| work=[[New York (magazine)|New York]]| date=December 23, 2012| access-date=July 11, 2013| author=Lee, Dan P.| publisher=New York Media, LLC| location=New York City| issn=0028-7369| archive-date=May 30, 2013| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130530032432/http://www.vulture.com/2012/12/beck-hansens-song-reader.html| url-status=live}}</ref> His brother took him to post-[[Beat Generation|Beat]] jazz places in [[Echo Park, Los Angeles|Echo Park]] and [[Silver Lake, Los Angeles|Silver Lake]]. He hung out at [[Los Angeles City College]] perusing records, books, and old [[sheet music]] in the college's library. He used a [[Identity fraud|fake ID]] to sit in on classes there, and he also befriended a literature instructor and his poet wife.<ref name="nym12"/> He worked at a string of odd jobs, including loading trucks and operating a [[leaf blower]].<ref name="lat94"/>