Jimi Hendrix gave his opinion about The Beatles during an interview with Steve Barker in 1967.
When Steve asked Jimi about The Beatles and what they were doing, Hendrix gave this reply:
“ Oh yes, I think it’s good. They’re one group that you can’t really put down and they’re just too much. And it’s so embarrassing, man, when America is sending over the Monkees-oh, God, that kills me! I’m so embarrassed that America could be so stupid as to make somebody like that. They could have at least done it with a group that has something to offer. They got groups starving to death in the States trying to get breaks and then these fairies come up.”
Hendrix was especially fond of Paul McCartney as it was Macca who helped make arrangements for the Jimi Hendrix Experience to play at the Monterey Pop Festival .
To quote Jimi: “Monterey, California. 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. Everything was perfect. I said: ‘ Wow! Everything’s together! What am I gonna do?
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