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Legendary song 'Purple Haze' by Jimi Hendrix started as a small riff but then developed into a song when he was urged to do so, right before a gig backstage in London, 1966.
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There's an archive for misheard lyrics, named after a misheard lyric in Hendrix's Purple Haze
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In the July of 1967 The Jimi Hendrix Experience opened for The Monkees on a small US tour - lasting six dates of kids chanting "WE WANT DAVY" over the opening bars of Purple Haze before a middle-finger sign-off after the sixth date.
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The tritone (or diminished fifth) heard at the beginning of Jimi Hendrix's song "Purple Haze" was historically called "the devil in music". Playing it was banned by the Pope during the Spanish Inquisition because "to play it was like ringing Satan's doorbell".
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Nobuo Uematsu has been influenced by Hendrix's "Purple Haze" while composing the intro from "One-Winged Angel".
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In 2010, a UK poll found that REM's "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite" had the most misheard lyric, followed by Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze". The chorus is most often misheard as "Calling Jamaica" rather than "Call me when you try to wake her".
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Bill Cosby recorded a parody of Hendrix's "Purple Haze" called "Hooray For The Salvation Army Band". Lyrics include: "Here I am/I'm having quite the fun Drinking wine/Got the chicks on the run/And just as I'm about/To make a little sin/The door's kicked open/And guess who walked in"
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Often during live performances Jimmy Hendrix would change the lyrics to Purple Haze from "Excuse me while i kiss the sky" to "excuse me while I kiss this guy".
