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In the months that followed, he steadily increased his international following, first in the US and then in Europe. With the release of two further singles – ‘Purple Haze’ in March and ‘The Wind Cries Mary’ in June – Jimi was rapidly building up momentum. “Despite his 1966 Top 10 hit ‘Hey Joe’, Hendrix was still largely unknown in the provinces before this tour hit the road, having played very little in his own right outside of London up until then…That, however, changed very rapidly. They would play theatres and civic halls the length and breadth of Britain, in a vague attempt to emulate the traditional ‘package’ tour of yesteryear…Featuring some of the craziest, most pioneering and – it would turn out – most influential bands of all time: The Jimi Hendrix Experience and Pink Floyd, supported by The Move, The Nice, Amen Corner, Eire Apparent and The Outer Limits.” “In November 1967, a star-studded but unlikely assemblage of psychedelic, rock and soul bands set out in a fleet of cars, Transit vans and coaches on a 21-date tour. Here was a guitar player that turned the world of rock music on its head and left contemporaries Pete Townsend and Eric Clapton weeping in disbelief at his virtuoso skill…” “Within weeks of his arrival in London, Jimi Hendrix’s legend was secured. 101 st Airborne Division) after suffering a training injury, plucked from Harlem by Animal Chas Chandler and transported to London, England. Discharged from the ‘Screaming Eagles’ (the U.S. He found his refuge in music…Īfter years as a freelance sideman, including a stint with rock’n’roll legend Little Richard, Hendrix continued to earn his musical chops in New York with hard-working club bands like The Isley Brothers and Curtis Knight and the Squires. Hendrix often told interviewers that his mother had died when he was ten. Tragically, when his mother passed away in Canada in 1958, his father refused to allow Jimi or his brother to attend her funeral. The psychedelic electric gypsy, playing guitar left-handed, dressed in flowing colourful gear, creating fluid guitar sounds that take the listener from their earthly home into outer space, a cosmic spiritual groove derived from blues and jazz…īorn in Seattle, Washington State, in the north-western United States, on 27 th November 1942, James Marshall Hendrix had, as Charles Shaar Murray said “the entire history of his nation imprinted in his genes”, being of black, white and Cherokee blood…His father Al and mother Lucille divorced when he was eight years old.