JIMI HENDRIX'S SUPERGROUP WITH PAUL MCCARTNEY

 

On October 21, 1969, less than a year before his unexpected death in Sept. 1970, Jimi Hendrix sent Paul McCartney a telegram inviting him to join a supergroup he was putting together, reports The Associated Press.
Hendrix had already successfully recruited legendary jazz trumpeter Miles Davis and jazz drummer Tony Williams. "We are recording an LP together this weekend. How about coming in to play bass stop call Alan Douglas (Hendrix's producer) 212-5812212. Peace Jimi Hendrix Miles Davis Tony Williams."
The Beatle's assistant and friend, Peter Brown, told Hendrix the next day that McCartney would not be able to join the recording sessions in New York City because he was on vacation and would be gone for two weeks.
The telegram was sent the same day a New York City DJ broke the infamous and incorrect story that McCartney was dead; that he had been killed in a spectacular car wreck and had been replaced by a double. This news caused a frustrated McCartney to retreat to his farm on the Mull of Kintyre in Scotland.
Speculation has arisen whether McCartney was ever told about the telegram upon his return. Said Hendrix biographer Charles Shaar Murray, "I regret this never actually took place. It would have been magnificent." The telegram is now on display in a restaurant in Prague, Czechoslovakia.