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Fact #169083

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Short story:

At the offices of Warner Bros in Los Angeles, California, USA, The Jimi Hendrix Experience are given gold discs for the album Are You Experienced.

Full article:

Mo Ostin (MD, Warner Bros) : When we saw the numbers those records could sell, we said, 'There's something going on here.' We could struggle with middle-of-the-road acts to sell maybe three hundred thousand albums. We could sell two million Jimi Hendrix albums. Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin never sold two million albums.