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"Purple Haze" is een nummer van Jimi Hendrix, geschreven in 1967, dat werd uitgebracht als de tweede single van The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Het verscheen later op de Amerikaanse versie van het album Are You Experienced. Het nummer is een van de "archetypische psychedelische drugsnummers van de sixties" geworden.

In maart 2005 plaatste Q magazine "Purple Haze" op nummer 1 van de lijst The 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks. Rolling Stone plaatste het op nummer 17 van The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time en op nummer 2 van lijst 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time.

"Purple Haze" is a song written by Jimi Hendrix and released as the second single by the Jimi Hendrix Experience on March 17, 1967, in the United Kingdom. The song features his inventive guitar playing, which uses the signature Hendrix chord and a mix of blues and Eastern modalities, shaped by novel sound processing techniques. Because of ambiguities in the lyrics, listeners often interpret the song as referring to a psychedelic experience, although Hendrix described it as a love song. It was included as the opening track in the North American edition of the Experience's debut album, Are You Experienced (1967).

"Purple Haze" is one of Hendrix's best-known songs and appears on many Hendrix compilation albums. The song featured regularly in concerts and each of Hendrix's group configurations issued live recordings. It was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and is included on lists of the greatest guitar songs, including at number two by Rolling Stone and number one by Q magazine. In 2004 and 2010, the former ranked it at number 17 on its “The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time ” list, re-ranking it to number 250 in the 2021 edition.