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The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Manic Depression

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“Manic Depression” is a song written by Jimi Hendrix and recorded by the Jimi Hendrix Experience in 1967. Music critic William Ruhlmann describes the lyrics as “more an expression of romantic frustration than the clinical definition of manic depression.“ The song is performed in an uptempo triple metre ( or ), an unusual time signature for hard rock. It also features Mitch Mitchell’s jazz-influenced drumming and a parallel guitar and bass line. In a climax of Season 4 of popular 1980s TV series Moonlighting, Bruce Willis’s character violently destroys a BMW sports car, symbolic of his frustrations over co-star Cybill Shepherd’s character: the soundtrack to the cathartic scene is the original Hendrix performance of Manic Depression. Read on...

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