{"id":109577,"date":"2017-12-09T14:42:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T14:42:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-08T10:53:31","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T10:53:31","slug":"purple-haze-released-1967-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/09\/purple-haze-released-1967-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Purple Haze released, 1967"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-body entry-content\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_FN98eHvI0Yg\/Sb6Co34h3nI\/AAAAAAAABYs\/OUtAKenTCTA\/s1600-h\/hendrix.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"200\" height=\"146\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313828249051192946\" src=\"http:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/hendrix.png\" class=\"wp-image-109578\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 146px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;\" \/><\/a>In  early 1966, Linda Keith, then girlfriend of Rolling Stones guitarist  Keith Richards, befriended a guitarist called Jimi Hendrix during a  visit to New York. While he was much in demand as a session musician,  Hendrix had yet to achieve success in his own right. Keith introduced  him to the Rolling Stones management, but they passed up on the  opportunity. She then approached Chas Chandler, who was looking to  manage artists following the recent break-up of his band, The Animals.<\/p>\n<p>In  September, Chandler persuaded Hendrix to travel to Britain where he  teamed him up with the English musicians Noel Redding (bass) and Mitch  Mitchell (drums) to form The Jimi Hendrix Experience. They swiftly  recorded and released their first single, a version of the rock standard  &#8220;Hey Joe&#8221;. The trio returned to the studio during November to begin  recording their d\u00e9but album <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Are You Experienced?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As  part of these sessions they recorded their second single, &#8220;Purple Haze&#8221;  for the A-side, and &#8220;51st Anniversary&#8221; on the B-side. It had its UK  release on 17th March 1967, entering the UK charts at number 39 before  peaking at number 3. The US release of the single was on 19th June, but  it only reached number 65 in the charts.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In early 1966, Linda Keith, then girlfriend of Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, befriended a guitarist called Jimi Hendrix during a visit to New York. While he was much in demand as a session musician, Hendrix had yet to achieve success in his own right. Keith introduced him to the Rolling Stones management, but they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":109578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}