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Beth Simpson

"We got so bored with it, we didn’t even play it, which was a mistake": it’s the song everyone wants to hear": The Bluetones on their “sideways tribute” to Jimi Hendrix

The Bluetones backstage at Moles Club, Bath, United Kingdom, 1994. L-R Eds Chesters, Adam Devlin, Scott Morriss and Mark Morriss.

Britpop band The Bluetones have been talking about how they put together their biggest hit, Slight Return, to The Guardian.

The song, which reached Number Two in January 1996, was one of the first numbers they wrote when they were just starting out as a band. “Scott (Morriss, bass) wrote the chord progressions and structure, but didn’t have any words or melody,” remembers frontman Mark Morriss.

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