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@Batman not a good argument. just bcuz someone does a cover song doesnt mean they were "influenced" by the artist. Big deal, a cover. Maybe the concert promoters said "do a few tunes from sgt pepper" which had just come out". So what. Maybe he just did it to please the crowd/sell tickets/....INfluenced my ass. Name any songs by Hendrix ----ANY---- which sound even remotely like he was influenced by the Beatles you mad balloon. Oh yeah maybe this one you moonbat:
“Jimi was a sweetie, a very nice guy. I remember him opening at the Saville on a Sunday night, 4th June 1967. Brian Epstein used to rent it when it was usually dark on the Sunday. Jimi opened, the curtains flew back and he came walking forward, playing 'Sgt. Pepper', and it had only been released on the Thursday so that was like the ultimate compliment. It's still obviously a shining memory for me, because I admired him so much anyway, he was so accomplished. To think that that album had meant so much to him as to actually do it by the Sunday night, three days after the release. He must have been so into it, because normally it might take a day for rehearsal and then you might wonder whether you'd put it in, but he just opened with it. It's a pretty major compliment in anyone's book. I put that down as one of the great honours of my career. I mean, I'm sure he wouldn't have thought of it as an honour, I'm sure he thought it was the other way round, but to me that was like a great boost.” – Paul McCartney.
Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles and The Influence Of Sgt. Pepper's

The date is June 4, 1967. The place is the Saville Theater, in London. In the audience that night are Paul McCartney and George Harrison of The Beatles. This is what they saw....

https://youtu.be/HLEboBA-Xzk
The video is Jimi Hendrix playing "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". That wouldn't be so unusual except The Beatles recording of the song had been released just three days before.

Hendrix had released "Are You Experienced" a few weeks earlier. His legendary performance at the Monterey Pop Festival was two weeks away. Although a lot of the public was not yet familiar with him, Hendrix was already getting a reputation as one of the greatest and most innovative guitarists in the world. And there was a developing mutual admiration between Jimi and The Beatles.Sgt. Pepper' audaciously saluted in 1967

Jimi Hendrix made a public display of his admiration for The Beatles when their seminal classic ’Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ was released during the ’Summer of Love’ in 1967.

Purchasing the record on the day of its release, he performed the title track just two days later at the Saville Theatre in London’s Shaftesbury Avenue.

Unbeknown to Hendrix, some of The Beatles were actually in the audience, listening intently to his audacious performance.

Read more at http://www.nme.com/news/music/jimi-h...7ZxJ82DA57j.99
It wasn't the only Beatle tune in his catalog. He also did versions of "Tomorrow Never Knows" and "Daytripper."
wait...did you just call me a moonbat what the fuck is a moonbat