Time to take a look back into this day in rock history: January 11
Open for business. The Whiskey A-Go-Go opens on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. A long list of recording artists make their mark there.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience records “Purple Haze” at a London studio, a song that drummer Mitch Mitchell claims the band learned after hearing Hendrix hum the melody. Done in three takes!
His first real hit in ten years, James Brown scores with “Living in America” from the Rocky IV soundtrack.
