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Purple Haze by Jimi Hendrix
Genre: Rock
Year: 1967
Year: 1967
"Purple Haze" is a song written in 1966 and recorded in 1967 by The Jimi Hendrix Experience and released as a single (Hendrixs second) in both the United Kingdom and the United States. It appeared on their 1967 album Are You Experienced. "Purple Haze" has become one of the "archetypical psychedelic drug songs of the sixties".
Reportedly, the song came into being after the bands producer Chas Chandler heard him playing the riff backstage and suggested that he write lyrics to go with it. There is some dispute about the lyrics: supposedly written in the dressing room of the Upper Cut Club on Boxing Day, 1966, Chandler claims that the lyrics were never cut in any way (though he admits that this was done on general principle with Hendrixs lyrics), while Hendrix Read full article at wikipedia.org
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