# Jimi Hendrix meets Right Said Fred: World's Most Improbable Homages
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimi-hendrix-meets-right-said-fred-worlds-most-improbable-homages/379776
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [November 9, 2006, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimi-hendrix-meets-right-said-fred-worlds-most-improbable-homages/379776 "2006-11-09T22:49:47Z")
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### Author:  [@HoboStew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoboStew)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2006, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimi-hendrix-meets-right-said-fred-worlds-most-improbable-homages/379776/1 "2006-11-09T22:49:47Z")
So I am driving around the other day when “I’m Too Sexy” comes on the radio. When the other stations don’t offer anything better, I resign myself to listening to it - not that I hate the song but it isn’t very high on my list. Anyways, about halfway through the song I notice something I never noticed before. The horns in the song play a riff from Jimi Hendrix’s “Third Stone from the Sun,” one of my all time favorite rock instrumentals (ok it has some talking in it, but screw it I am calling it an instrumental). I was blown away. I never thought in a million years that Right Said Fred would have a Jimi Hendrix hook hidden in one of their songs, much less under my nose the whole time.
Who else has some musical homages they never would have expected?
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### Author:  [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2006, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimi-hendrix-meets-right-said-fred-worlds-most-improbable-homages/379776/2 "2006-11-10T00:11:27Z")
In the _City of Heroes_ game, there’s one area where the background music is very similar to the _Purple Haze_ riff.