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New To The Charts: Wild Jimi Hendrix

Keith Altham, NME, 14 January 1967

THE MAN for whom the words "Wild One" were invented has hit us! Jimi Hendrix, 22, from Seattle, Washington, U.S.A., courtesy of ex-Animal Chas Chandler – debuts in the NME Chart at No. 24 with his self-arranged 'Hey Joe' (Polydor).

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