Debut Album

Jimi Hendrix Experience

At the urging of Animals guitarist Chas Chandler, American guitarist Jimi Hendrix goes to London to get signed to a record contract. The Jimi Hendrix Experience release their debut album in the U.K. The album spends 33 weeks on the U.K. charts. In July Hendrix tours the U.S. as the opening act for The Monkees in support of the U.S. album release.