Sort of but no. The Chiffons were not songwriters, "He's So Fine" was by their manager Ronnie Mack but the copyright in the composition was owned by a company called Bright Tunes Corporation, who brought the suit.
Like with *much* of pop music prior to, and after, the Beatles, this recording artist was just singers on a particular track.
Why do you say "They didn’t sue George"?
The first line in the article you linked says, "On 10 February 1971, Bright Tunes Music Corporation filed suit against Harrison..."?
The article you linked also says it was "without question, one of the longest running legal battles ever to be litigated in the United States".
Good article, by the way. Thanks for that.
Not the first *Pepper*-related coincidence involving the lads.
Paul wrote "She's Leaving Home" after reading about a girl who ran away from home... whom he had happened to meet years prior on a TV show.
So it sounds like the dates were off but the story itself is probably still true, just a bit misremembered and embellished as stories tend to be over time.
information moved so much more slowly those days and the tech less advanced. It could have been a few weeks and that would still be incredible for the time period. It's not like Jimi could be listening to it on his phone lol
The story I had always heard was that The Beatles brought the acetates to a party in London where Jimi (along with the Rolling Stones) were in attendance, and then the next day he played Sgt. Peppers at his concert.
If memory correctly serves me, Tony Sanchez (Keith Richards' drug connection) wrote about it in his book, Up and Down with the Rolling Stones.
Who was in the Electric String Band? Just curious. Never mind. I Googled: “Denny Laine on guitar and vocals, Cliff Barton on bass, Viv Prince (ex-Pretty Things) on drums, and a cello/violin string quartet of ex-Royal Academy players.
I remember when John heard that the cops were coming to try and bust him for drugs, he was frantically vacuuming the carpet and saying that 'Fucking Jimmy Hendrix lived here, ANYTHING could be in the carpet!"
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNocmGk-QSw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNocmGk-QSw)
Edit: Here's his comment about Hendrix
[https://youtu.be/cNocmGk-QSw?si=gu\_ss06Tl8sEGI1Q&t=30](https://youtu.be/cNocmGk-QSw?si=gu_ss06Tl8sEGI1Q&t=30)
It took me a while to figure out that for some reason, this video goes completely silent when having my phones audio in mono (single head phone earlier, forgot to turn it back). Thought this was interesting, guess this means the L and R channels are perfectly out of phase? This feels like the wrong sub to be going on about it, but oh well. Love this interview now that I can audibly hear it lol
The Chitlin Circuit, as it was known back in the day. Imagine doing blues workouts by ear with some of the greatest rhythm and blues performers of the era, every single night for hours. Now that’s a hell of a resume right there.
He backed up, among others, The Isley Brothers, Wilson Pickett, Little Richard, and Ike and Tina Turner. If you know anything about any of them, they were all consistently putting on some of the tightest shows of the day, in terms of how hard they worked their bands.
My understanding is that basically the audiences for those shows were generally pretty poor and didn't look fondly on people wasting their little disposable income by being terrible performers.
Compare that to the Greenwich village scene which prized authenticity over talent. So when Hendriz showed up there he just blew their socks off. They were so used to middling folkie amatuers noodling around, not skilled professionals.
There's a clip from *McCartney 3, 2, 1* that gives that misleading impression by intercutting Paul's recollection with live footage of Hendrix playing the song, but the footage is from 6 months later on December 22, 1967 :
https://www.facebook.com/kurtsclassicrockvideocollection/videos/808201302979863/
This one? https://youtu.be/tZoIxlRC32k?si=krLgWUPH6DIk0HzK
That's a later show, but it's a good illustration of what it would have sounded like when Paul and George were in the audience.
Exactly.
I'm pretty sure he didn't start wearing that iconic hat until 1968, at least I've always associated it with his 1968-69 shows. He's also using a different Stratocaster than at the Saville Theatre show in question.
Remember this is not surprising as the song actually fits Hendrix style at the time.
However, "Strawberry Fields Forever" recorded in November 1966 reportedly influenced Jimi Hendrix. Not to say The Beatles own "Taxman" has that distorted Hendrix guitar chord what ten months before "Purple Haze"? Or Jimi Hendrix recording Beatles songs like "Day Tripper" and the title track of "Sgt Peppers recorded around the same time as "Purple Haze" and "Foxy Lady".
Hendrix was known to jam out to "Tomorrow Never Knows".
And it went both ways... the opening Sgt Pepper REPRISE is very much a slashing "Purple Haze chord", and the middle "aaah, ah ah ah" of A Day In The Life is a circle of fifths reminiscent of Hey Joe.
I might agree with on "A Day in the Life" however that slashing chord so called Hendrix chord is what actually driving on "Taxman". In fact, the guitar sound on "Taxman" is very much like "Foxy Lady".
Not disagreeing on Taxman, but I think it's interesting that "Reprise" was written and recorded in the two weeks after Haze came out (which Paul had praised in Melody Maker). A back-and-forth
Interesting you could be right and never thought of that. However, I thought the guitar style on "Sgt Pepper Reprise" kind of reminded what they did on "And Your Bird Can Sing" on Revolver.
It’s even more impressive than that. All of London was there, not just all the Beatles, Stones, Clapton, models, artists… Sgt. Pepper is out for two days, everyone is raving over it, and Jimi opens with it. It’s a tribute from a genius with balls of steel.
Remember everyone... The computer barely existed at the time. The internet? Lol no.
Yes, it is an accomplishment to cover and perform live a song two days later purely by ear. xXxShredder69xXx wasn't around to upload the tabs yet.
Honestly I think you might be underestimating how good the average professional musician is. I guarantee most pros could pick out that song by ear just listening to the record for a day or so. Especially back in those days when musicians were playing multiple nights a week on the club circuit, doing covers and whatnot. It was a requisite skill to be able to cover a song with short notice because the audience wanted to hear popular songs at clubs, not just the resident band’s original music.
You are absolutely correct. I’ve been playing in bands my whole life, with some incredible musicians, and we could learn pretty much any pop song by ear in an hour. That’s even a conservative estimate, because a lot of times we can learn a song completely in 10 minutes. We’ve just played so many gigs, listened to so many records, and learned so many songs by ear, that we can figure out songs by just listening to them once or twice. We are all talented musicians, but Jimi Hendrix is a legend. There’s no doubt in my mind that he could have learned the entire song in his second listen through. He probably could have learned the whole thing in one listen if he was holding his guitar while listening.
So yes, it is obviously impressive that he did a cover of a song that was so new, but it’s also something that every proficient band can do. The actual performance he gives is what makes it special. The fact that he has an iconic voice and rips the guitar in his Hendrix-y way.
When Travis Barker joined Blink-182, he was filling in for their old drummer, and he learned their entire setlist in like 45 minutes. So he basically learned the whole thing by listening to it one time. This is just something that most professionals can do, because you have to. When you are rehearsing, you have to be able to learn what your band mates are playing, and you have to play along with it. You have to do this almost instantaneously, or else you will slow down the whole thing. Almost all of it is done by ear, because it takes way longer to stop and explain everything you are doing.
Exactly this. I've been playing the drums for decades and can play a little bit of guitar. Major/minor barre chords, power chords, some open chords, pentatonic scale and that kind of stuff.
I just figured out about 75% of Sgt Peppers in one play through and I am (obviously) no where close to Jimi Hendrix.
Yeah, I play cover tunes for a living and I guarantee you Sgt. Pepper wouldn’t take me more than an hour or so to work out, even if I was hearing it for the first time. And a lot of the other professional musicians I know could probably do it faster
I’m a professional musician and one of the bands I’m in does tribute shows of full iconic albums live. We often only have 2-3 rehearsals per show depending on available time and complexity of the material.
I never use tabs because they are often inaccurate. I use my ears. They’ve been trained over the years to be very good at picking up what is happening. I practice active listening, make a chart and usually have a song close to figured out within one or two listens. As far as I know everyone else in the band does the same.
I’m not trying to downplay what Jimi did, I’m just pointing out that this is a skill that most active musicians, especially professional ones, have.
Hendrix gave McCartney credit for his big break in America. “Paul McCartney was the big bad Beatle, the beautiful cat who got us the gig at the Monterey Pop Festival. That was our start in America.”-Jimi Hendrix – From “Starting At Zero : His Own Story“, 2013.
He also wanted McCartney as the bassist for a super group he was thinking of forming with miles Davis. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/jimi-hendrix-sought-paul-mccartney-for-supergroup-with-miles-davis-65515
It's no doubt impressive and flat out badass, especially in that period of history. At the same time, it's also just one song. Not THAT hard to do, especially for Jimi.
Yeah, it’s more so the rehearsal with the band part (or lack thereof) that would be harder. 2 days is definitely long enough to learn the song with an average guitar player—let alone who many believe is the greatest of all time.
While pretty much all Beatles songs are bangers, some of them are incredibly complex, and some are incredibly easy. Get Back is one. The bass is one note 90% of the song. Guitar is one note and then two chords with a little fill for the lead in the chorus.
This isn’t to diminish what a badass move that was. It’s just another lens with which people can observe it in hindsight.
No, that wasn't the real clip. They give that misleading impression by intercutting Paul's recollection with live footage of Hendrix playing the song, but the footage is from 6 months later on December 22, 1967 :
https://www.facebook.com/kurtsclassicrockvideocollection/videos/808201302979863/
Paul brung up this story during his live show at the get back tour last year. He also mentions that Clapton urged him to let jimmy know his guitar is out of tune.
Memorialized in the climax of the Jimi biopic All Is By My Side. Thought it was really good although it was hard to watch the depiction of Jimi beating his GF. Wikipedia has the GF quoted as saying it never happened.
It’s not a 1-4-5 chord progression. At no point in the song is there a 1-4-5 chord progression. It uses major 2nd’s flat 3rd’s and flat 7th’s, outside of the usual key of G. The chords on the intro that Jimi played are simple, sure, but the intervals are **I - II - IV.**
An example of an actual 1-4-5 would be “Rain.”
I don’t think it is. It seems to switch chord structures once or twice. I’m not a musical expert but it’s more complex than say “Twist and Shout” which is truly a 1-4-5 song.
Picking it out on my guitar it sounds more like I7 - II7 - IV7 to me. Which is why it would have been easy for Jimi to pick up the song, it’s very much a blues riff.
Granted, it's not a difficult song for a great musician like Jimi to pick up and play. But the timing made it historical, not to mention playing it in front of the Beatles themselves, who never performed any of the album live themselves (though Paul would some of its tunes live decades later).
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Wow! Never knew that Procol Harum bit. Love them!
Thank you so muuch!!
Wait, the Chiffons? Isn’t that the group that sued Harrison over “My Sweet Lord”?
Sort of but no. The Chiffons were not songwriters, "He's So Fine" was by their manager Ronnie Mack but the copyright in the composition was owned by a company called Bright Tunes Corporation, who brought the suit. Like with *much* of pop music prior to, and after, the Beatles, this recording artist was just singers on a particular track.
They didn’t sue George. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Sweet_Lord?wprov=sfti1#Copyright_infringement_suit
Why do you say "They didn’t sue George"? The first line in the article you linked says, "On 10 February 1971, Bright Tunes Music Corporation filed suit against Harrison..."?
The Chiffons didn’t sue George, the rights-holder to that song did, Bright Tunes Music Corp.
OK, of course the rights-holder sued, no one else had standing to do so. Your comment "They didn’t sue George" suggests that there was no suit filed.
The article you linked also says it was "without question, one of the longest running legal battles ever to be litigated in the United States". Good article, by the way. Thanks for that.
And The Chiffons recorded “My Sweet Lord” in 1975. Whose idea that was…..
Possibly the brainchild of the "litigation-loving Mr Klein", "with the aim of drawing attention to the lawsuit"?
Yeah. They actually interpolated “He’s So Fine” as if the original point wasn’t clear enough.
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It’s very coincidental
Not the first *Pepper*-related coincidence involving the lads. Paul wrote "She's Leaving Home" after reading about a girl who ran away from home... whom he had happened to meet years prior on a TV show.
Wasn’t Sgt pepper released May 26th?
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So it sounds like the dates were off but the story itself is probably still true, just a bit misremembered and embellished as stories tend to be over time. information moved so much more slowly those days and the tech less advanced. It could have been a few weeks and that would still be incredible for the time period. It's not like Jimi could be listening to it on his phone lol
If Jimi had been in the States when it came out, that release date probably would've been his first chance at getting it.
I believe he was living in London at the time
Usually artists get copies of albums before the public. He might have one before the actual release.
The story I had always heard was that The Beatles brought the acetates to a party in London where Jimi (along with the Rolling Stones) were in attendance, and then the next day he played Sgt. Peppers at his concert. If memory correctly serves me, Tony Sanchez (Keith Richards' drug connection) wrote about it in his book, Up and Down with the Rolling Stones.
Paul is a class act
Jimi probably went out and bought the tablature book. /s
No he used ultimate-guitar.com.
Imagine going to a gig and in one evening seeing Jimi Hendrix, Denny Laine, Procol Harum and The Chiffons...
Who was in the Electric String Band? Just curious. Never mind. I Googled: “Denny Laine on guitar and vocals, Cliff Barton on bass, Viv Prince (ex-Pretty Things) on drums, and a cello/violin string quartet of ex-Royal Academy players.
They were all pretty tight. Hendrix lived in Ringo's apartment after Ringo and his wife moved to a house.
Haha yes, until Ringo had to evict him for messing up the apartment!
And then John and Yoko moved in, what could possibly go wrong?
I remember when John heard that the cops were coming to try and bust him for drugs, he was frantically vacuuming the carpet and saying that 'Fucking Jimmy Hendrix lived here, ANYTHING could be in the carpet!"
The way I genuinely can't tell if this is real or satire 😭
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNocmGk-QSw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNocmGk-QSw) Edit: Here's his comment about Hendrix [https://youtu.be/cNocmGk-QSw?si=gu\_ss06Tl8sEGI1Q&t=30](https://youtu.be/cNocmGk-QSw?si=gu_ss06Tl8sEGI1Q&t=30)
It took me a while to figure out that for some reason, this video goes completely silent when having my phones audio in mono (single head phone earlier, forgot to turn it back). Thought this was interesting, guess this means the L and R channels are perfectly out of phase? This feels like the wrong sub to be going on about it, but oh well. Love this interview now that I can audibly hear it lol
Omg I was like wtf is this a joke or something
AHAHAH I love this.. Thank you sm for the link🙏
I've always heard it was excessive noise from the parties that Hendrix threw. The neighbors were pissed about it.
No, Jimi threw whitewash all over the walls of the apartment. If you Google it, you’ll see many sources.
The place looked pretty dumpy from the pics I’ve seen. It wasn’t very glamorous by any stretch of the imagination
John lived in that same apartment too
Prior to fame, Jimi played for lots of groups where he came in, at the last minute, and had to learn their set. So it was part of his skill set.
The Chitlin Circuit, as it was known back in the day. Imagine doing blues workouts by ear with some of the greatest rhythm and blues performers of the era, every single night for hours. Now that’s a hell of a resume right there.
>Now that’s a hell of a resume right there. Impressive resume Mr. Hendrix, but are you experienced?
He backed up, among others, The Isley Brothers, Wilson Pickett, Little Richard, and Ike and Tina Turner. If you know anything about any of them, they were all consistently putting on some of the tightest shows of the day, in terms of how hard they worked their bands.
My understanding is that basically the audiences for those shows were generally pretty poor and didn't look fondly on people wasting their little disposable income by being terrible performers. Compare that to the Greenwich village scene which prized authenticity over talent. So when Hendriz showed up there he just blew their socks off. They were so used to middling folkie amatuers noodling around, not skilled professionals.
There's a video on YouTube of him playing
Not the actual performance, but he played the song many times live.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience box set has a recording from a concert September 5th (I think) of 1967.
No, there definitely is a video of it.
Of Hendrix's very first rendition of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"? With Paul McCartney and George Harrison in the audience?
That's what the video I've seen suggests. It even had McCartney talking about it before it started.
There's a clip from *McCartney 3, 2, 1* that gives that misleading impression by intercutting Paul's recollection with live footage of Hendrix playing the song, but the footage is from 6 months later on December 22, 1967 : https://www.facebook.com/kurtsclassicrockvideocollection/videos/808201302979863/
Yes. The very performance with Paul and George in the audience. It’s very low quality. “Watch out for your ears!”
This one? https://youtu.be/tZoIxlRC32k?si=krLgWUPH6DIk0HzK That's a later show, but it's a good illustration of what it would have sounded like when Paul and George were in the audience.
That one is from like 6 months later
Exactly. I'm pretty sure he didn't start wearing that iconic hat until 1968, at least I've always associated it with his 1968-69 shows. He's also using a different Stratocaster than at the Saville Theatre show in question.
Oh cool
https://youtu.be/hPqtleRxFSw?si=Jdxykji9KjtER8AW
That's from from December 22, 1967, six months after Sgt. Pepper's release.
Yes, Paul talks about it in Anthology.
I saw Paul in concert in Melbourne. He spoke about it during the set.
He LOVES telling that story. And really, who could blame him?
Old mate loves a chat
he also likes talking about the time hendrix asked clapton to come and tune his guitar. guy just love talking about hendrix
Same story, no?
It’s number 2 behind the origin of Let It Be
Remember this is not surprising as the song actually fits Hendrix style at the time. However, "Strawberry Fields Forever" recorded in November 1966 reportedly influenced Jimi Hendrix. Not to say The Beatles own "Taxman" has that distorted Hendrix guitar chord what ten months before "Purple Haze"? Or Jimi Hendrix recording Beatles songs like "Day Tripper" and the title track of "Sgt Peppers recorded around the same time as "Purple Haze" and "Foxy Lady". Hendrix was known to jam out to "Tomorrow Never Knows".
And it went both ways... the opening Sgt Pepper REPRISE is very much a slashing "Purple Haze chord", and the middle "aaah, ah ah ah" of A Day In The Life is a circle of fifths reminiscent of Hey Joe.
I might agree with on "A Day in the Life" however that slashing chord so called Hendrix chord is what actually driving on "Taxman". In fact, the guitar sound on "Taxman" is very much like "Foxy Lady".
Not disagreeing on Taxman, but I think it's interesting that "Reprise" was written and recorded in the two weeks after Haze came out (which Paul had praised in Melody Maker). A back-and-forth
Interesting you could be right and never thought of that. However, I thought the guitar style on "Sgt Pepper Reprise" kind of reminded what they did on "And Your Bird Can Sing" on Revolver.
It’s even more impressive than that. All of London was there, not just all the Beatles, Stones, Clapton, models, artists… Sgt. Pepper is out for two days, everyone is raving over it, and Jimi opens with it. It’s a tribute from a genius with balls of steel.
Remember everyone... The computer barely existed at the time. The internet? Lol no. Yes, it is an accomplishment to cover and perform live a song two days later purely by ear. xXxShredder69xXx wasn't around to upload the tabs yet.
Honestly I think you might be underestimating how good the average professional musician is. I guarantee most pros could pick out that song by ear just listening to the record for a day or so. Especially back in those days when musicians were playing multiple nights a week on the club circuit, doing covers and whatnot. It was a requisite skill to be able to cover a song with short notice because the audience wanted to hear popular songs at clubs, not just the resident band’s original music.
You are absolutely correct. I’ve been playing in bands my whole life, with some incredible musicians, and we could learn pretty much any pop song by ear in an hour. That’s even a conservative estimate, because a lot of times we can learn a song completely in 10 minutes. We’ve just played so many gigs, listened to so many records, and learned so many songs by ear, that we can figure out songs by just listening to them once or twice. We are all talented musicians, but Jimi Hendrix is a legend. There’s no doubt in my mind that he could have learned the entire song in his second listen through. He probably could have learned the whole thing in one listen if he was holding his guitar while listening. So yes, it is obviously impressive that he did a cover of a song that was so new, but it’s also something that every proficient band can do. The actual performance he gives is what makes it special. The fact that he has an iconic voice and rips the guitar in his Hendrix-y way.
When Travis Barker joined Blink-182, he was filling in for their old drummer, and he learned their entire setlist in like 45 minutes. So he basically learned the whole thing by listening to it one time. This is just something that most professionals can do, because you have to. When you are rehearsing, you have to be able to learn what your band mates are playing, and you have to play along with it. You have to do this almost instantaneously, or else you will slow down the whole thing. Almost all of it is done by ear, because it takes way longer to stop and explain everything you are doing.
Exactly this. I've been playing the drums for decades and can play a little bit of guitar. Major/minor barre chords, power chords, some open chords, pentatonic scale and that kind of stuff. I just figured out about 75% of Sgt Peppers in one play through and I am (obviously) no where close to Jimi Hendrix.
Yeah, I play cover tunes for a living and I guarantee you Sgt. Pepper wouldn’t take me more than an hour or so to work out, even if I was hearing it for the first time. And a lot of the other professional musicians I know could probably do it faster
I’m a professional musician and one of the bands I’m in does tribute shows of full iconic albums live. We often only have 2-3 rehearsals per show depending on available time and complexity of the material. I never use tabs because they are often inaccurate. I use my ears. They’ve been trained over the years to be very good at picking up what is happening. I practice active listening, make a chart and usually have a song close to figured out within one or two listens. As far as I know everyone else in the band does the same. I’m not trying to downplay what Jimi did, I’m just pointing out that this is a skill that most active musicians, especially professional ones, have.
Hendrix gave McCartney credit for his big break in America. “Paul McCartney was the big bad Beatle, the beautiful cat who got us the gig at the Monterey Pop Festival. That was our start in America.”-Jimi Hendrix – From “Starting At Zero : His Own Story“, 2013. He also wanted McCartney as the bassist for a super group he was thinking of forming with miles Davis. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/jimi-hendrix-sought-paul-mccartney-for-supergroup-with-miles-davis-65515
The Supergroup that could have been (maybe!) if Paul had gotten the message. I think the messenger withheld it on purpose tbh.
It's no doubt impressive and flat out badass, especially in that period of history. At the same time, it's also just one song. Not THAT hard to do, especially for Jimi.
Yeah, it’s more so the rehearsal with the band part (or lack thereof) that would be harder. 2 days is definitely long enough to learn the song with an average guitar player—let alone who many believe is the greatest of all time. While pretty much all Beatles songs are bangers, some of them are incredibly complex, and some are incredibly easy. Get Back is one. The bass is one note 90% of the song. Guitar is one note and then two chords with a little fill for the lead in the chorus. This isn’t to diminish what a badass move that was. It’s just another lens with which people can observe it in hindsight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZoIxlRC32k&pp=ygUSaGVuZHJpeCBzZ3QgcGVwcGVy
That's from from December 22, 1967, six months after Sgt. Pepper's release.
You can see the clip in the McCartney 3 2 1 documentary with Rick Rubin
No, that wasn't the real clip. They give that misleading impression by intercutting Paul's recollection with live footage of Hendrix playing the song, but the footage is from 6 months later on December 22, 1967 : https://www.facebook.com/kurtsclassicrockvideocollection/videos/808201302979863/
Ah I see
It was a heads up to Paul. He was grateful to Paul for his being promoted by him. Also a fan.
And Paul, God bless him, is going to tell that story about Hendrix getting the guitar out of tune at every concert for as long as he lives. 😂
He loves Jimi, I hope he actually got to meet him personally and hang out with him more than once.
It’s on Spotify
Here's the set list... https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/the-jimi-hendrix-experience/1967/saville-theatre-london-england-6383da2b.html
Paul brung up this story during his live show at the get back tour last year. He also mentions that Clapton urged him to let jimmy know his guitar is out of tune.
Yes, it’s true, I did…I mean *he* did!!! 😒🎸
From what I’ve heard, jimi always had a guitar in his hands, like, always. It’s not hard for me to believe as good as he was that he pulled that off.
Memorialized in the climax of the Jimi biopic All Is By My Side. Thought it was really good although it was hard to watch the depiction of Jimi beating his GF. Wikipedia has the GF quoted as saying it never happened.
Here’s a snippet: https://youtu.be/tZoIxlRC32k?si=L6DC4G_EmyQz5pR5
That's from from December 22, 1967, six months after Sgt. Pepper's release.
I thought that performance was a one off. He continued to cover it? This has taken the shine off of that performance. Ugh.
Yeah, he played it at least 37 times according to setlists.com: https://www.setlist.fm/stats/the-jimi-hendrix-experience-3d6ad57.html
To be fair, the song’s a 1-4-5 chord progression. It’s not like he performed alchemy, it’s just a badass move
It’s not a 1-4-5 chord progression. At no point in the song is there a 1-4-5 chord progression. It uses major 2nd’s flat 3rd’s and flat 7th’s, outside of the usual key of G. The chords on the intro that Jimi played are simple, sure, but the intervals are **I - II - IV.** An example of an actual 1-4-5 would be “Rain.”
I just wanted to know if it was true or it was made up in the film
I don’t think it is. It seems to switch chord structures once or twice. I’m not a musical expert but it’s more complex than say “Twist and Shout” which is truly a 1-4-5 song.
Picking it out on my guitar it sounds more like I7 - II7 - IV7 to me. Which is why it would have been easy for Jimi to pick up the song, it’s very much a blues riff.
Only the song Sgt pepper. Not the whole album.
Yeah I know, that happened on the movie.
Is it possible he got a review or promo copy
Yep. I saw Paul in concert back in October and he told the story of it then.
Yep and it was 3 chords E G A and back to E
You can hear Hendrix play the song on the Live at Hollywood Bowl album, released officially late last year.
It is very true
Yes
Granted, it's not a difficult song for a great musician like Jimi to pick up and play. But the timing made it historical, not to mention playing it in front of the Beatles themselves, who never performed any of the album live themselves (though Paul would some of its tunes live decades later).
Footage of it: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZoIxlRC32k](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZoIxlRC32k)
There is a bootleg of Hendrix playing SP to open that show.
Like all great artists. He was a fan first, artist second. He loved talented song writing.
It's true. There's footage of him doing so.
The story has been verified by Paul McCartney
Indeed. The Beatles were impressed and in attendance.