Fact #88881
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Short story:
The Jimi Hendrix Experience enter the Billboard Top 40 singles chart in the USA with their cover of Bob Dylan's All Along The Watchtower. It will peak at No20.
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Bob Dylan : We can’t forget Jimi Hendrix. I actually saw Jimi perform when he was with a band called Jimmy James and the Blue Flames. Something like that. And Jimi didn’t even sing. He was just the guitar player. He took some small songs of mine that nobody paid any attention to and brought them up into the outer limits of the stratosphere. Turned them all into classics. I have to thank Jimi, too. I wish he was here.
(Source : speech at the Musicares Person Of The Year Event, Feb 2015)
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(Source : speech at the Musicares Person Of The Year Event, Feb 2015)