After his enthusiastically received performance at France’s No. 1 venue, the Olympia theatre in Paris on the Johnny Hallyday tour, an on-stage jam with Cream, a showcase gig at the newly-opened, pop-celebrity oriented nightclub Bag O’Nails and the all important appearances on the top UK TV pop shows “Ready Steady Go!” and the BBC’s “Top of the Pops”, word of Hendrix spread throughout the London music community in late 1966. His showmanship and virtuosity made instant fans of reigning guitar heroes Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck, as well as Brian Jones and members of The Beatles and The Who, whose managers signed Hendrix to their new record label, Track Records.
Hendrix’s first single was a cover of “Hey Joe”, using Tim Rose’s uniquely slower arrangement of the song including his addition of a female backing chorus. Backing this first 1966 “Experience” single was Hendrix’s first songwriting effort, “Stone Free”. Further success came in early 1967 with “Purple Haze” which featured the “Hendrix chord” and “The Wind Cries Mary”. The three singles were all UK Top 10 hits and were also popular internationally including Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Japan (though failed to sell when released later in the US). Onstage, Hendrix was also making an impression with fiery renditions of the B.B. King hit “Rock Me Baby” and a fast version of Howlin’ Wolf’s hit “Killing Floor”.
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