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Topic History of: Imagine - Jimi Hendrix
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Author	Message
JK2006	No reason why both stories are not correct; Chas knew the song, considered doing a version of it but it was only when Jimi told him about hearing it in my flat that he went into action.
Jimi Fan	JK2006 wrote: Yes - spot on JF - and confirms my thought that Jimi played Chas the Leaves version after I'd turned him onto it" Not quite, Chas claimed he heard Jimi play the song in New York before Jimi ever came to London. Your version may be the correct one but Chas obviously has more credibility having been Jimi's manager and as he is dead he wont be changing his story so that is the one that historians will accept.
JK2006	Yes - spot on JF - and confirms my thought that Jimi played Chas the Leaves version after I'd turned him onto it and Chas went "yeah - I love that song; do it". Chas was also a lovely guy, by the way. Read 65 My Life So Far for more tales about the delightful (if naive) Jimi.
Jimi Fan	JK2006 wrote: I was annoyed by Chas claiming credit for Hey Joe. I have a letter from Jimi thanking me for playing him the Leaves version which I'd brought back from LA a few months earlier and convincing him to cover it as his first single. In the documentary Chas doesn't claim to have introduced Jimi to the song Hey Joe. He says he had already heard the Tim Rose slow version of Hey Joe and wanted to find an artist to record it that way. According to Chas in the documentary the first song "Jimmy James and the Blue Flames" played when he went to see them at the Cafe Wha? in Greenwich Village, NY was that particular song.
JK2006	Yes I'm sure Chas did hear the song at a Tim Rose gig and made a mental note that it was a hit song but it was definitely me, JK, who played the Leaves version to Jimi (I pointed out the delicious bass riff which he got Noel Redding to emulate in his cover) which inspired him to want to record it. It's quite clear in his sweet letter to me, thanking me.