Corrie and it's rumoured he stole a few bars from its iconic theme tune for one of his songs. The Purple Haze star loved to watch the northern-based soap when he moved from the US to the UK in the late 1960s.And it even inspired him to go visit Manchester, mingle with the locals and try black pudding.The revelations come in a new book Wild Thing to mark the 50th anniversary of his death from a drug overdose aged just 27 in 1970.Author Philip Norman interviewed the guitar whizz's ex-girlfriend, former hairdresser and budding DJ Kathy Etchingham who explained how he "religiously" watched Corrie.The book adds: "The soap's northern idiom was at first too impenetrable but he soon became involved with its characters."Especially arch-gossips Ena.
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