Hey Joe
Hey Joe is an American song popular Années 1960 which became a standard of the Rock, in particular after its recovery by Jimi Hendrix. Its original author is unknown. She tells the history of a man who flees after having shot at his wife.
Billy Roberts is the first artist who made a success in 1962 of them. Hey Joe was a tube in the United States for the group The Leaves, but it is the version of Tim Pink in 1965, which will take again Jimi Hendrix in 1966, which popularized this song. The group Deep Purple includes it in their first disc, Shades off Deep Purple , in 1968, in a version hispanisante. The same year, the Mothers off Invention of Zappa sing the parody Hey Punk on We' Re Only in It for the Money. Later, Roy Buchanan will take again the song in homage to Hendrix.On can also announce a version by the Humphries singers in 1971, with John Lawton future singer of Uriah Heep.
The song is adapted in France by Johnny Hallyday then by Charlots in the form of a pastiche ( Hey max ).
The song was also taken again for the film Innocents - The Dreamers by Michael Pitt, singer of the group Pagoda. And by Tina Turner in 1984.
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