The Beatles held Jimi Hendrix in high regard. Paul McCartney was particularly impressed with Hendrix's rendition of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" during a performance at the Saville Theatre in London on June 4, 1967, shortly after the release of the Sgt. Pepper album:
Jimi opened, the curtains flew back, and he came walking forward, playing ‘Sgt. Pepper’, and it had only been released on Thursday, so that was like the ultimate compliment...He must have been so into it because normally it might take a day for rehearsal and then you might wonder whether you’d put it in, but he just opened with it. It’s a pretty major compliment in anyone’s book. I put that down as one of the great honours of my career. I mean, I’m sure he wouldn’t have thought of it as an honour, I’m sure he thought it was the other way round, but to me, that was like a great boost.
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