Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis Collaboration Would Have Included Paul McCartney, Memo Requesting Paul Join Supergroup Unearthed

Every 70s music fan worth his salt knows that Jimi Hendrix was looking to record with Miles Davis before his untimely death in 1970. However, it looks like the "superstar collaboration that never was" was actually intended to be something of a supergroup.  A recently unearthed memo shows that Hendrix invited Beatle Paul McCartney to play bass on the record.

According to the AP, Hendrix sent Paul a telegram at London's Apple Records on October 21, 1969 requesting that he join the recording session:

"We are recording and LP together this weekend in NewYork," it reads. "How about coming in to play bass stop call Alvan Douglas 212-5812212. Peace Jimi Hendrix Miles Davis Tony Williams."

While the telegram has been owned by the Hard Rock Café since they added it to their massive memorabilia collection in 1995, interest has been stirred up recently with the release of People, Hell & Angels, believed by many to be the last of Hendrix's unreleased recordings.

"Major Hendrix connoisseurs are aware of it," Hard Rock's historian Jeff Nolan told the AP." It would have been one of the most insane supergroups. These four cats certainly reinvented their instruments and the way they're perceived."

According to Rolling Stone, Beatles aide Peter Brown responded on the 22^nd and informed Jimi that Paul was out of town on vacation for the next two weeks.