Fact #181772
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Short story:
Jimi Hendrix's American tv debut, on the Ed Sullivan Show, is cancelled - allegedly because of a camera crew strike.Full article:
Bob Levine (Hendrix management staff) : Bob Precht, Ed Sullivan's son-in-law, produced the Ed Sullivan Show. Sullivan Productions really wanted to have Jimi on. Ed Sullivan had to get him one way or another, so Sullivan, Precht, Jeffery and I sat down to talk. Sullivan wanted to have the Vienna Ballet dance to his music, with Hendrix in front of a big orchestra, done on location in Europe.
Jeffery figured out the money he would need, and agreed to the concept verbally. He left the meeting to speak to somebody - I don't know who - and when, a day or so later, I told him he was supposed to follow-up with Bob Precht, he replied, 'We aren't going to do it.' I asked if he had spoken to Jimi and he said, 'No. I am not going to let Hendrix do that. I've got my reasons.' Jimi would have loved to have done it.
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Jeffery figured out the money he would need, and agreed to the concept verbally. He left the meeting to speak to somebody - I don't know who - and when, a day or so later, I told him he was supposed to follow-up with Bob Precht, he replied, 'We aren't going to do it.' I asked if he had spoken to Jimi and he said, 'No. I am not going to let Hendrix do that. I've got my reasons.' Jimi would have loved to have done it.
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