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The Wind Cries Mary by Jimi Hendrix

Biografie van de kunstenaar Jimi Hendrix

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix Born Johnny Allen Hendrix November 27 1942 – September 18 1970 Was An American Rock Guitarist Singer And Songwriter. Although His Mainstream Career Spanned Only Four Years He Is Widely Regarded As One Of The Most Influential Electric Guitarists In The History Of Popular Music And One Of The Most Celebrated Musicians Of The 20th Century. The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Describes Him As "arguably The Greatest Instrumentalist In The History Of Rock Music". Born In Seattle Washington Hendrix Began Playing Guitar At The Age Of 15. In 1961 He Enlisted In The U.S. Army And Trained As A Paratrooper In The 101st Airborne Division He Was Granted An Honorable Discharge The Following Year. Soon Afterward He Moved To Clarksville Tennessee And Began Playing Gigs On The Chitlin' Circuit Earning A Place In The Isley Brothers' Backing Band And Later With Little Richard With Whom He Continued To Work Through Mid-1965. He Then Played With Curtis Knight And The Squires Before Moving To England In Late 1966 After Being Discovered By Linda Keith Who In Turn Interested Bassist Chas Chandler Of The Animals In Becoming His First Manager. Within Months Hendrix Had Earned Three UK Top Ten Hits With The Jimi Hendrix Experience "Hey Joe" "Purple Haze" And "The Wind Cries Mary". He Achieved Fame In The U.S. After His Performance At The Monterey Pop Festival In 1967 And In 1968 His Third And Final Studio Album Electric Ladyland Reached Number One In The U.S. It Was Hendrix's Most Commercially Successful Release And His First And Only Number One Album. The World's Highest-Paid Performer He Headlined The Woodstock Festival In 1969 And The Isle Of Wight Festival In 1970 Before His Accidental Death From Barbiturate-Related Asphyxia On September 18 1970 At The Age Of 27. Hendrix Was Inspired Musically By American Rock And Roll And Electric Blues. He Favored Overdriven Amplifiers With High Volume And Gain And Was Instrumental In Utilizing The Previously Undesirable Sounds Caused By Guitar Amplifier Feedback. He Helped To Popularize The Use Of A Wah-Wah Pedal In Mainstream Rock And Was The First Artist To Use Stereophonic Phasing Effects In Music Recordings. Holly George-Warren Of Rolling Stone Commented "Hendrix Pioneered The Use Of The Instrument As An Electronic Sound Source. Players Before Him Had Experimented With Feedback And Distortion But Hendrix Turned Those Effects And Others Into A Controlled Fluid Vocabulary Every Bit As Personal As The Blues With Which He Began." Hendrix Was The Recipient Of Several Music Awards During His Lifetime And Posthumously. In 1967 Readers Of Melody Maker Voted Him The Pop Musician Of The Year And In 1968 Rolling Stone Declared Him The Performer Of The Year. Disc And Music Echo Honored Him With The World Top Musician Of 1969 And In 1970 Guitar Player Named Him The Rock Guitarist Of The Year. The Jimi Hendrix Experience Was Inducted Into The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame In 1992 And The UK Music Hall Of Fame In 2005. Rolling Stone Ranked The Band's Three Studio Albums Are You Experienced Axis Bold As Love And Electric Ladyland Among The 100 Greatest Albums Of All Time And They Ranked Hendrix As The Greatest Guitarist And The Sixth Greatest Artist Of All Time.

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"The Wind Cries Mary" Is A Song Written By Jimi Hendrix And Issued By The Jimi Hendrix Experience As The Band's Third Single On May 5 1967. It Reached No. 6 In The UK Charts. The Track Is An Example Of Psychedelic Blues-Rock As The Song Is In The Key Of F Major With A Guitar Solo Primarily Involving The F Major Pentatonic Scale. Today It Is #379 On Rolling Stone's List Of The 500 Greatest Songs Of All Time. It Has Been Covered By Musicians Such As Jamie Cullum John Mayer Xavier Rudd Richie Sambora Sting Popa Chubby Pat Boone And Caron Wheeler. In The United States The Song Was First Released As The B-Side To The "Purple Haze" Single In June 1967 And Later Appeared On The August 1967 American Version Of The Album Are You Experienced Where Three Tracks Were Deleted From The British LP Version To Make Way For The Band's Three Singles Issued In The United Kingdom To That Time. The Song Was Recorded At The End Of The "Fire" Sessions. It Is Said To Have Been Inspired When Hendrix And His Then Girlfriend Kathy Etchingham Had An Argument Over Her Cooking After She Stormed Out Of Their Apartment Hendrix Wrote "The Wind Cries Mary" As Mary Was Etchingham's Middle Name. Another Possible Inspiration Could Be The Poem 'To Mary' By The English Poet John Clare. Kathy Has Said That Many Of The Dylanesque Lyrics Describe The Test Card That Appeared At The End Of BBC Television Transmissions At That Time. However This Is Probably A Mistake On Kathy's Part As That Particular Testcard Was Not First Broadcast Until July 1967 While The Song Had Been Written Long Before That. Billy Cox Who Was The Bassist For The Band Of Gypsys And Long-Time Friend Of Hendrix Has Stated Curtis Mayfield's Influence On The Song. "'The Wind Cries Mary' Was A Riff That Was Influenced By Curtis Mayfield Who Was A Big Influence For Jimi." "The Wind Cries Mary" And "Highway Chile" Were Re-Released In 1983 On The Singles Album Compilation.

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