I think it's fair to say Jimi first hit it big in The UK. I first saw him on TV in, I think, 1967, when I was 13 years old. I've got to tell you I was, like just about everybody else, completely blown away by him. We had never seen a performer anywhere close to what Jimi was doing. Rock royalty like The Stones and The Beatles were at his live gigs. This wasn't down purely to his guitar work. He was the whole package and fitted in perfectly to those times. For me the rock world has always been a place where people with less than perfect voices can express their art, and Jimi certainly did that.