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Jimi's lysergic dreamscape set to music
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The MusicRadar Team, Fri 27 Nov 2009, 12:01 am UTC
When Jimi Hendrix arrived on the London scene in 1966 he scared the hell out of contemporaries like Eric Clapton and Pete Townshend, and set about rewriting the electric guitar rulebook forever.
Recorded the following year, the four decades since its release haven't made Purple Haze sound one fraction less exciting or otherworldly.