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Paul McCartney, Jimi Hendrix and Miles Davis apparently came close to forming a supergroup less than a year before Hendrix died.
When Hendrix and Miles Davis were planning to record an album together, with Hendrix’s drummer Tony Williams, they sent a telegram to McCartney asking if he’d come and play bass.
The telegram, sent on October 22, 1969, read: “We are recording and (sic) LP together this weekend. How about coming in to play bass stop call Alan Douglas 212-5812212. Peace Jimi Hendrix Miles Davis Tony Williams.”
But the recording session was not to be, as Beatles aide Peter Brown replied to Douglas saying that McCartney was on holiday in Scotland and would not be back for another two weeks.
The session itself never actually came together and Hendrix died choking on his own vomit 11 months later on September 18, 1970, after taking a number of sleeping pills.
McCartney's holiday prevented the three comig together in 1969
The telegram is currently being displayed in Hard Rock cafe in Prague.
Hard Rock historian Jeff Nolan told The Teelgraph: “Major Hendrix connoisseurs are aware of the telegram. It would have been one of the most insane supergroups.”
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