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The music industry is a lot of things, but a meritocracy is not one of them. There are, of course, those elusive few artists who manage to strike that balance between commercial success and artistic genius, but, on the whole, the pop charts rarely provide a home to musical revolutionaries like Jimi Hendrix<\/a>. <\/p>\n Armed with that battered, burned white Stratocaster and a mind practically brimming with psychedelic inspiration, Hendrix carved out a reputation for himself among the most prolific and revolutionary artists of the 1960s counterculture. In the wake of his output, everybody from Eric Clapton to Paul McCartney bowed down to the guitarist\u2019s overwhelming genius, but that didn\u2019t necessarily mean the music-buying public was falling over themselves to follow suit. <\/p>\n Throughout the history of popular music, the charts have rarely reflected the greatest masterpieces of their time. While not wishing to cast scorn upon the Great British public and their music-buying habits, it is worth remembering that in 1969<\/a> \u2013 the year of Woodstock, countercultural rebellion, and The Beatles\u2019 \u2018Get Back\u2019 \u2013 the best-selling single was \u2018Sugar, Sugar\u2019, by the cartoon band The Archies. <\/p>\n With that rather depressing fact in mind, Jimi Hendrix\u2019s lack of commercial hits makes a little bit more sense. As it turns out, the masses weren\u2019t quite as interested in his psychedelic mastery as audiences today are, preferring instead to opt for the kind of middle-of-the-road pop guff that has populated the charts since their very inception. <\/p>\n