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{{Single infobox | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Songs -->
| Name = Purple Haze
| Cover = JimiHendrix PurpleHaze 1988.jpg
| Caption = A 1988 CD titled after the song
| Artist = [[The Jimi Hendrix Experience]]
| B-side = "51st Anniversary"
| Released = [[March 17]], [[1967]]
| Format = [[Gramophone record|7"]]
| Recorded = [[January 11]] and [[February 3]], 1967 at [[De Lane Lea Studios|De Lane Lea]] and [[Olympic Studios]] in [[London]], [[England]]
| Genre = [[Hard rock]], [[psychedelic rock]], [[acid rock]], [[heavy metal music|heavy metal]]
| Length = 2:50
| Label = [[Track Records|Track]]
| Producer = [[Chas Chandler]]
| Writer = [[Jimi Hendrix]]
| Last single ="[[Hey Joe]]"<br />(1966)
| This single ="'''Purple Haze'''"<br />(1967)
| Next single ="[[The Wind Cries Mary]]"<br />(1967)
}}
{{About||other meanings of Purple Haze|Purple Haze (disambiguation)}}
"'''Purple Haze'''" is a song written in [[1966 in music|1966]] and recorded in [[1967 in music|1967]] by [[Jimi Hendrix]] and released as a single (Hendrix's second) in both the [[United Kingdom]] and the [[United States]]. It appeared on the [[United States|US]] release of their 1967 album ''[[Are You Experienced (album)|Are You Experienced]]'' and on subsequent re-releases of the album. "Purple Haze" has become one of the "archetypical psychedelic drug songs of the sixties"<ref name="shapiro">{{cite book
| last = Shapiro
| first = Harry
| authorlink =
| coauthors = Caesar Glebbeek
| title = Jimi Hendrix, Electric Gypsy
| publisher = MacMillan
| date = 1995
| location =
| page = 148
| url = http://books.google.com/books?id=JB1W2dn31rwC
| doi =
| id =
| isbn = 9780312130626}}</ref> and is often cited as one of [[Jimi Hendrix]]'s greatest songs, and for many is his [[signature song]].{{Fact|date=January 2009}}
Reportedly, the song came into being after his manager [[Chas Chandler]] heard him playing the riff backstage and suggested that he write lyrics to go with it. There is some dispute about the lyrics: supposedly written in the dressing room of the Upper Cut Club on [[Boxing Day]], 1966, Chandler claims that the lyrics were never cut in any way (though he admits that this was doing on general principle with Hendrix's lyrics), while Hendrix stated that the original song contained much more text.<ref>Shapiro and Glebbeek, ''Jimi Hendrix, Electric Gypsy'', 147.</ref>
The single was released in the UK (as [[Track Records|Track]] 604001) on 17 March 1967; it entered the charts at #39 and peaked at number three, spending 14 weeks in the chart. It was released in the US (as [[Reprise Records|Reprise]] 0597) on 19 June 1967, where it peaked at #65, spending only 8 weeks in the chart.<ref>Shapiro and Glebbeek, ''Jimi Hendrix, Electric Gypsy'', 524-526.</ref>
In March [[2005]], [[Q magazine|''Q'' magazine]] ranked "Purple Haze" at number one in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks.{{Fact|date=January 2009}} ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' magazine placed the song at #17 in their "[[500 Greatest Songs of All Time]]."<ref>{{cite web
| last =
| first =
| authorlink =
| coauthors =
| title = The RS 500 Greatest Songs of All Time
| work =
| publisher = [[Rolling Stone]]
| date =
| url = http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/500songs
| format =
| doi =
| accessdate = 2009-01-25}}</ref> Australian music TV channel [[Max (channel)|MAX]] placed "Purple Haze" at #17 on their 2008 countdown ''Rock Songs: Top 100''.{{Fact|date=January 2009}}
==Lyrics==
Hendrix said that he was inspired by a dream in which he was walking under the sea. In his dream his faith in Jesus saved him; an early song manuscript has the title "Purple Haze, Jesus Saves."{{Fact|date=January 2009}} "I dream a lot and I put a lot of my dreams down as songs," he said in a 1969 interview with the ''[[New Musical Express]]'', "I wrote one called 'First Around the Corner' and another called 'The Purple Haze,' which was all about a dream I had that I was walking under the sea."<ref>Shapiro and Glebbeek, ''Jimi Hendrix, Electric Gypsy'', 148.</ref> Shapiro and Glebbeek point out that despite the colorful imagery of the song it may well have another inspiration than the use of [[LSD]], since no one, as of yet, has ever publicly acknowledged witnessing Hendrix take LSD until six months after the song was written.<ref>Shapiro and Glebbeek, ''Jimi Hendrix, Electric Gypsy'', 148.</ref> The term "purple haze" has been used to refer to LSD, due to the form sold by Sandoz, called [[Delysid]], which came in purple capsules, <ref>{{cite book |last1= Miller |first1= Richard Lawrence
|authorlink1= |title= Drugs of abuse : a reference guide to their history and use
|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=G7As-qawdzMC&pg=PA228&lpg=PA228&dq=%22purple+haze%22+Sandoz&source=bl&ots=jgFLRC_-Vj&sig=eQqWIYhCDM3AKnQQLzb4Pf9Saxg&hl=en&ei=K-u3SYq4HY_YMPnaiOEK&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=5&ct=result |format= |accessdate= 2009-03-11|edition= |date= |year= 2002 |publisher= Greenwood Press |location= Westport, Conn|language= |isbn= 0313318077 9780313318078 |oclc= 224044107
|doi= |id= |page= 228}} </ref><ref>{{cite journal |last= Noon|first= Chris|authorlink= = |year= 2005 |month= April |title= Novartis CEO Posts Strong Quarter|journal= [[Forbes (magazine)|Forbes]]|volume= |issue= April 21 |pages= |id= |url= http://www.forbes.com/2005/04/21/0421autofacescan09.html |accessdate=2009-03-11 |quote= }}
</ref> as well as a street drug manufactured by [[Owsley Stanley]]. <ref>{{cite news |first=J. |last= Sriram |authorlink= |title= My five|url=http://www.hindu.com/mp/2008/04/05/stories/2008040551670900.htm |work= [[The Hindu]]|publisher= |date= 2008-05-05|accessdate=11 March 2009 }}</ref>
==Common [[Mondegreen]]==
A common misheard lyric in the song is "'scuse me while I kiss this guy". The actual line is "'scuse me while I kiss the sky". In fact, it has even been documented that Jimi Hendrix himself perpetrated this mondegreen by actually using it as a joke while singing Purple Haze live in concert,<ref>http://www.kissthisguy.com/jimi.php</ref> particularly at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967.
==Music==
The song is known for the "[[Hendrix chord]]" (dominant 7 # 9) as well as its prominent use of the distinctive [[tritone]] interval which appears in the intro. The guitar plays a Bb octave while the bass plays an E octave;<ref>{{cite book
| last = Rooksby
| first = Rikky
| authorlink =
| coauthors =
| title = Riffs: How to Create and Play Great Guitar Riffs
| publisher =
| date = 2002
| location =
| page = 24
| url =
| doi =
| id =
| isbn = 0879307102}}''</ref> such a "dissonant" interval was unusual in popular music of the time.{{Fact|date=January 2009}} The guitar solo is played through an ''[[Octavia (effects pedal)|Octavia]]'',<ref>Shapiro and Glebbeek, ''Jimi Hendrix, Electric Gypsy'', 524.</ref> an [[effects pedal]] that increases notes by one octave. The effect was developed by [[Roger Mayer]], an acoustical and electronics engineer, and Mayer claims he made it in cooperation with Jimi Hendrix.<ref>{{cite web
| last =
| first =
| authorlink =
| coauthors =
| title = Octavia
| work = Guitar Effects by Roger Mayer
| publisher =
| date =
| url = http://www.roger-mayer.co.uk/octavia.htm
| format =
| doi =
| accessdate = 2009-01-25}}</ref> A dubbed guitar part using the Octavia can also be heard during the outro.{{Fact|date=March 2008}}
==Covers of and references to ''Purple Haze''==
{{Unreferenced|date=January 2009}}
* Johhny Jones & the King Casuals covered Purple Haze in 1968. Hendrix was a member of The King Casuals prior to his solo career.
* San Francisco string quartet [[Kronos Quartet]] play "Purple Haze" live regularly; the song is included on their album ''[[Kronos Quartet (album)|Kronos Quartet]]'' (1986) and on the music DVD ''In Accord'' (2000).<ref>{{cite news
| last = Walsh
| first = Michael
| coauthors =
| title = Once Upon A Time In America
| work =
| pages =
| language =
| publisher = [[Time]]
| date = 1986-11-17
| url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,962874,00.html?iid=chix-sphere
| accessdate = 2009-01-24}}</ref><ref>{{cite news
| last = Wierzbicki
| first = James
| coauthors =
| title = Kronos Quartet Audience Gets Ear-load Of Quality
| work =
| pages =
| language =
| publisher = Saint Louis Dispatch
| date = 1990-01-29
| url = http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SL&p_theme=sl&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB04C8AFB3D913D&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM
| accessdate = 2009-01-24}}</ref>
* A live recording was featured in the opening credits of the [[1983 in film| 1983]] [[comedy-drama]] [[Purple Haze (film)| film of the same name]].
* A heavy version has been recorded by [[Ozzy Osbourne]] for the compilation album [[Stairway to Heaven/Highway to Hell]].
* The band [[Winger (band)|Winger]] performed a cover of the song on their [[Winger (album)|self-titled debut album]]
* A pop version by [[Dion DiMucci|Dion]] reached #72 in Canada in February 1969.
* Los Angeles [[art rock]] band [[The Fibonaccis]] recorded a discordant avant-garde cover of "Purple Haze" in 1984, releasing a [[psychedelic]] music video for the song the same year.
* In [[Cheech & Chong]]'s film'' [[Nice Dreams]]'', when the protagonists are in a [[mental institution]], a black patient dressed like Jimi Hendrix (played by [[Michael Winslow]]) sings a parody version of Purple Haze.
* In the film [[Apollo 13 (film)|''Apollo 13'']], [[Jim Lovell]]'s oldest daughter was playing Purple Haze before watching [[Apollo 13]]'s live broadcast from space.
* A version of "Purple Haze" by [[Tangerine Dream]] is on the group's concert album ''[[220 Volt Live]]''.
* A version by [[The Cure]] is the first track on 1993 [[tribute album]] [[Stone Free: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix]]
* A version by the [[Art Ensemble of Chicago]] is featured on the album ''[[Ancient to the Future]]'' (1987).
* A live version of the song appears along side "[[The Wind Cries Mary]]" in the music video game [[Guitar Hero World Tour]].
* In an episode of ''[[My Wife and Kids]]'', Michael Kyle shows his son and his friend his guitar skills by playing the song; he also lit the guitar on fire and played it with his tongue.
* In the film ''[[Apocalypse Now]]'', the character Lance deploys a purple smoke grenade on the boat and sings the song, while on LSD.
* The song Purple Haze is played in the movie He-Man: Master Of The Universe from 1987 starring swedish actor Dolph Lundgren.
* The intro to Purple Haze can be heard in the song [[Dani California]] by [[The Red Hot Chili Peppers]] during the guitar solo.
* A copy of the single was found in a CD player in one of [[Uday Hussein]]'s luxury vehicles.
* In the song "[[Dimension]]" by the Australian band "[[Wolfmother]]", they use the lyrics "Purple Haze is in the sky"
* The [[Traveling Wilburys]] song "[[End of the Line]]" contains the lyrics "Maybe somewhere down the road a ways/ You'll think of me and wonder where I am these days/ Maybe somewhere down the road when somebody plays/ Purple Haze"
==References==
{{reflist}}
==See also==
*[[Jimi Hendrix discography]]
==External links==
* [http://video.aol.com/video/jimi-hendrixpurple-haze/1799316 Live performance of "Purple Haze" at the Berkeley (Calif.) Community Theatre in 1970.]
*[http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=33:tn7uak3ksmhx Allmusic] review
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{{Single infobox | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Songs -->
| Name = Purple Haze
| Cover = JimiHendrix PurpleHaze 1988.jpg
| Caption = A 1988 CD titled after the song
| Artist = [[The Jimi Hendrix Experience]]
| B-side = "51st Anniversary"
| Released = [[March 17]], [[1967]]
| Format = [[Gramophone record|7"]]
| Recorded = [[January 11]] and [[February 3]], 1967 at [[De Lane Lea Studios|De Lane Lea]] and [[Olympic Studios]] in [[London]], [[England]]
| Genre = [[Hard rock]], [[psychedelic rock]], [[acid rock]], [[heavy metal music|heavy metal]]
| Length = 2:50
| Label = [[Track Records|Track]]
| Producer = [[Chas Chandler]]
| Writer = [[Jimi Hendrix]]
| Last single ="[[Hey Joe]]"<br />(1966)
| This single ="'''Purple Haze'''"<br />(1967)
| Next single ="[[The Wind Cries Mary]]"<br />(1967)
}}
{{About||other meanings of Purple Haze|Purple Haze (disambiguation)}}
"'''Purple Haze'''" is a song written in [[1966 in music|1966]] and recorded in [[1967 in music|1967]] by [[Jimi Hendrix]] and released as a single (Hendrix's second) in both the [[United Kingdom]] and the [[United States]]. It appeared on the [[United States|US]] release of their 1967 album ''[[Are You Experienced (album)|Are You Experienced]]'' and on subsequent re-releases of the album. "Purple Haze" has become one of the "archetypical psychedelic drug songs of the sixties"<ref name="shapiro">{{cite book
| last = Shapiro
| first = Harry
| authorlink =
| coauthors = Caesar Glebbeek
| title = Jimi Hendrix, Electric Gypsy
| publisher = MacMillan
| date = 1995
| location =
| page = 148
| url = http://books.google.com/books?id=JB1W2dn31rwC
| doi =
| id =
| isbn = 9780312130626}}</ref> and is often cited as one of [[Jimi Hendrix]]'s greatest songs, and for many is his [[signature song]].{{Fact|date=January 2009}}
Reportedly, the song came into being after his manager [[Chas Chandler]] heard him playing the riff backstage and suggested that he write lyrics to go with it. There is some dispute about the lyrics: supposedly written in the dressing room of the Upper Cut Club on [[Boxing Day]], 1966, Chandler claims that the lyrics were never cut in any way (though he admits that this was doing on general principle with Hendrix's lyrics), while Hendrix stated that the original song contained much more text.<ref>Shapiro and Glebbeek, ''Jimi Hendrix, Electric Gypsy'', 147.</ref>
The single was released in the UK (as [[Track Records|Track]] 604001) on 17 March 1967; it entered the charts at #39 and peaked at number three, spending 14 weeks in the chart. It was released in the US (as [[Reprise Records|Reprise]] 0597) on 19 June 1967, where it peaked at #65, spending only 8 weeks in the chart.<ref>Shapiro and Glebbeek, ''Jimi Hendrix, Electric Gypsy'', 524-526.</ref>
In March [[2005]], [[Q magazine|''Q'' magazine]] ranked "Purple Haze" at number one in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks.{{Fact|date=January 2009}} ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' magazine placed the song at #17 in their "[[500 Greatest Songs of All Time]]."<ref>{{cite web
| last =
| first =
| authorlink =
| coauthors =
| title = The RS 500 Greatest Songs of All Time
| work =
| publisher = [[Rolling Stone]]
| date =
| url = http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/500songs
| format =
| doi =
| accessdate = 2009-01-25}}</ref> Australian music TV channel [[Max (channel)|MAX]] placed "Purple Haze" at #17 on their 2008 countdown ''Rock Songs: Top 100''.{{Fact|date=January 2009}}
scuse me while i kiss the sky see his amasing lvie performance of this song here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YTYpzR31bk
==Common [[Mondegreen]]==
A common misheard lyric in the song is "'scuse me while I kiss this guy". The actual line is "'scuse me while I kiss the sky". In fact, it has even been documented that Jimi Hendrix himself perpetrated this mondegreen by actually using it as a joke while singing Purple Haze live in concert,<ref>http://www.kissthisguy.com/jimi.php</ref> particularly at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967.
==Music==
The song is known for the "[[Hendrix chord]]" (dominant 7 # 9) as well as its prominent use of the distinctive [[tritone]] interval which appears in the intro. The guitar plays a Bb octave while the bass plays an E octave;<ref>{{cite book
| last = Rooksby
| first = Rikky
| authorlink =
| coauthors =
| title = Riffs: How to Create and Play Great Guitar Riffs
| publisher =
| date = 2002
| location =
| page = 24
| url =
| doi =
| id =
| isbn = 0879307102}}''</ref> such a "dissonant" interval was unusual in popular music of the time.{{Fact|date=January 2009}} The guitar solo is played through an ''[[Octavia (effects pedal)|Octavia]]'',<ref>Shapiro and Glebbeek, ''Jimi Hendrix, Electric Gypsy'', 524.</ref> an [[effects pedal]] that increases notes by one octave. The effect was developed by [[Roger Mayer]], an acoustical and electronics engineer, and Mayer claims he made it in cooperation with Jimi Hendrix.<ref>{{cite web
| last =
| first =
| authorlink =
| coauthors =
| title = Octavia
| work = Guitar Effects by Roger Mayer
| publisher =
| date =
| url = http://www.roger-mayer.co.uk/octavia.htm
| format =
| doi =
| accessdate = 2009-01-25}}</ref> A dubbed guitar part using the Octavia can also be heard during the outro.{{Fact|date=March 2008}}
==Covers of and references to ''Purple Haze''==
{{Unreferenced|date=January 2009}}
* Johhny Jones & the King Casuals covered Purple Haze in 1968. Hendrix was a member of The King Casuals prior to his solo career.
* San Francisco string quartet [[Kronos Quartet]] play "Purple Haze" live regularly; the song is included on their album ''[[Kronos Quartet (album)|Kronos Quartet]]'' (1986) and on the music DVD ''In Accord'' (2000).<ref>{{cite news
| last = Walsh
| first = Michael
| coauthors =
| title = Once Upon A Time In America
| work =
| pages =
| language =
| publisher = [[Time]]
| date = 1986-11-17
| url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,962874,00.html?iid=chix-sphere
| accessdate = 2009-01-24}}</ref><ref>{{cite news
| last = Wierzbicki
| first = James
| coauthors =
| title = Kronos Quartet Audience Gets Ear-load Of Quality
| work =
| pages =
| language =
| publisher = Saint Louis Dispatch
| date = 1990-01-29
| url = http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SL&p_theme=sl&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB04C8AFB3D913D&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM
| accessdate = 2009-01-24}}</ref>
* A live recording was featured in the opening credits of the [[1983 in film| 1983]] [[comedy-drama]] [[Purple Haze (film)| film of the same name]].
* A heavy version has been recorded by [[Ozzy Osbourne]] for the compilation album [[Stairway to Heaven/Highway to Hell]].
* The band [[Winger (band)|Winger]] performed a cover of the song on their [[Winger (album)|self-titled debut album]]
* A pop version by [[Dion DiMucci|Dion]] reached #72 in Canada in February 1969.
* Los Angeles [[art rock]] band [[The Fibonaccis]] recorded a discordant avant-garde cover of "Purple Haze" in 1984, releasing a [[psychedelic]] music video for the song the same year.
* In [[Cheech & Chong]]'s film'' [[Nice Dreams]]'', when the protagonists are in a [[mental institution]], a black patient dressed like Jimi Hendrix (played by [[Michael Winslow]]) sings a parody version of Purple Haze.
* In the film [[Apollo 13 (film)|''Apollo 13'']], [[Jim Lovell]]'s oldest daughter was playing Purple Haze before watching [[Apollo 13]]'s live broadcast from space.
* A version of "Purple Haze" by [[Tangerine Dream]] is on the group's concert album ''[[220 Volt Live]]''.
* A version by [[The Cure]] is the first track on 1993 [[tribute album]] [[Stone Free: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix]]
* A version by the [[Art Ensemble of Chicago]] is featured on the album ''[[Ancient to the Future]]'' (1987).
* A live version of the song appears along side "[[The Wind Cries Mary]]" in the music video game [[Guitar Hero World Tour]].
* In an episode of ''[[My Wife and Kids]]'', Michael Kyle shows his son and his friend his guitar skills by playing the song; he also lit the guitar on fire and played it with his tongue.
* In the film ''[[Apocalypse Now]]'', the character Lance deploys a purple smoke grenade on the boat and sings the song, while on LSD.
* The song Purple Haze is played in the movie He-Man: Master Of The Universe from 1987 starring swedish actor Dolph Lundgren.
* The intro to Purple Haze can be heard in the song [[Dani California]] by [[The Red Hot Chili Peppers]] during the guitar solo.
* A copy of the single was found in a CD player in one of [[Uday Hussein]]'s luxury vehicles.
* In the song "[[Dimension]]" by the Australian band "[[Wolfmother]]", they use the lyrics "Purple Haze is in the sky"
* The [[Traveling Wilburys]] song "[[End of the Line]]" contains the lyrics "Maybe somewhere down the road a ways/ You'll think of me and wonder where I am these days/ Maybe somewhere down the road when somebody plays/ Purple Haze"
==References==
{{reflist}}
==See also==
*[[Jimi Hendrix discography]]
==External links==
* [http://video.aol.com/video/jimi-hendrixpurple-haze/1799316 Live performance of "Purple Haze" at the Berkeley (Calif.) Community Theatre in 1970.]
*[http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=33:tn7uak3ksmhx Allmusic] review
{{The Jimi Hendrix Experience}}
{{Jimi Hendrix}}
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