Just three days after the release of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, Jimi Hendrix played a hard rocking version live at Saville Theatre. Paul and George were in the audience — supposedly, Jimi didn’t know.

“[Big Mama Thornton] was a wonderful blues singer, with a great moaning style. But it was as much her appearance, as her blues style that influenced the writing of ‘Hound Dog’ and the idea that we wanted her to growl it.” – Mike Stoller, on writing Hound Dog Taylor for Big Mama Thornton

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