It was the most famous rock 'n' roll night in Ilkley's history.

Jimi Hendrix, the legendary hellraiser who lit up the late 1960s with his uniquely psychedelic blues, caused pandemonium by playing a wild gig at the tiny Gyro Club.

And now that historic evening is to be immortalised in a new television project.

The Yorkshire Screen Commission, which was set up in 1993 to promote the region as film location, has been asked to help carry research for a new series of the BBC documentary, Reputations.

Kaye Elliott, location administrator for the Sheffield-based commission, said she was particularly keen to get in touch with anyone who was at the concert at the Gyro Club in Ilkley on March 12, 1967 or anyone who was at one of Hendrix's other Yorkshire dates on that tour.

"The BBC want to speak to people who have a personal story to tell about the Jimi Hendrix 1967 UK tour," she said.

"Were you there? Did you meet him? Would you like to share your story?"

The show at the Gyro Club, a now defunct rock venue which was based in the Troutbeck Hotel, was part of a groundbreaking tour of the UK by the Jimi Hendrix Experience.

He had begun to take the pop world by storm with his on-stage antics, which included playing his guitar behind his back or with his teeth.

But anyone in the audience in Ilkley that night will remember it more for the fact that it was over almost before it had started. When the tour was arranged, Hendrix was virtually unknown outside the United States.

But the band's first single Hey Joe had been a big hit by the time they came to Britain and many of the venues they were booked into were too small to cope with the huge numbers of people who flocked from afield to their sensational new sound.

Ilkley was no exception.

More than 700 fans packed into the club, three times the number which was thought to be safe.

Glasses were smashed, a door was ripped off and pictures were turn from the walls before police moved in to halt the gig.

Hendrix had not even managed to finish two songs.

Anyone who was there and is interested in sharing their memories contact the BBC History Unit on 0181-752-6605.

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