And the wind cries Mary

(Image copied without permission from the BBC)

I heard this incident about how the first time Jimi Hendrix was ever broadcast live on radio was on a BBC Radio 3 classical music programme, in 1967, I think.

The story says that Hendrix was setting up the studio for a live BBC sessions recording, about 2 floors up from the BBC radio 3 studio that was broadcasting a classical music programme. Aparently, in order to set up his guitars and amps the way he wanted to, and to get the desired distortion and overdrive, he had to pump up the gain and volume to such an extent that the sound crossed the two floors into the BBC3 studio, and was actually heard by the audience who were calling the classical music producer to complain for the interference.

Is that cool, or what?


After all the jacks are in their boxes,
and the clowns have all gone to bed,
you can hear happiness staggering on down the street,
footprints dressed in red

and the wind whispers Mary

A broom is drearily sweeping,
up the broken pieces of yesterday'€™s life
somewhere a queen is weeping,
somewhere a king has no wife

and the wind it cries Mary

The traffic lights they turn of blue tomorrow,
and shine their emptiness down on my bed,
the tiny island sails downstream,
cause the life that lived is is dead

and the wind screams Mary

Will the wind ever remember,
the names it has blown in the past,
and with this crutch it'€™s old age and it's wisdom,
it whispers no this will be the last

and the wind cries Mary.