Jimi Hendrix
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"One night we sat down and did the entire thing on a cassette set-up – it was magnificent!": How a set of unfinished, acid-fried songs about a mythical superhero could have been Jimi Hendrix’s last album
By Kris Needs published
Black Gold was an unfinished, autobiographical suite that may have provided the foundation for Jimi Hendrix's fifth studio album

"In our haste, the lump of hash got away and slipped down the sink drainpipe. Panic!": What happened when Jimi Hendrix created havoc and got banned by The BBC
By Hugh Fielder published
The producers of BBC1's Happening For Lulu wanted Jimi Hendrix to play Hey Joe. Instead, viewers were treated to a tribute to Cream and controlled chaos

"I don't want to be a clown any more. I don't want to be a rock'n'roll star": The radical rebirth of Jimi Hendrix and his Band Of Gypsys
By Bill DeMain published
In January 1970, Jimi Hendrix pulled the plug on stardom to chase a funkier, freer direction with his Band Of Gypsys. This is their story

Jimi Hendrix's London: an interactive map
By Fraser Lewry published
Hotels, hangouts, crash pads, recording studios, sweaty gigs, swanky nightclubs… and where it all ended in tragedy: Jimi Hendrix was here

AC/DC, Pearl Jam and Iron Maiden: 10 brilliant but oft-overlooked albums you can save on with Amazon's Black Friday deals
By Rich Hobson published
We hunted through Amazon's massive Black Friday vinyl deals to find the very best albums on offer so you don't have to!

10 cover versions that are way more popular than the originals (according to Spotify)
By Paul Travers published
The Beatles, Bowie, Bob Dylan and Stevie Wonder have all seen covers of their songs become more popular than the original version

“If I ended up in jail, I knew I wouldn’t be able to play guitar”: the secret history of Jimi Hendrix’s pre-fame years
By Rob Hughes published
Although I don’t eat every day, everything’s going all right for me. It could be worse than this

"Oh God, it was so embarrassing!" Why watching their support act Jimi Hendrix get booed off stage every night was mortifying for The Monkees
By Paul Brannigan published
In 1967, The Monkees took the Jimi Hendrix Experience on tour as their support act. Their fans were not ready

“You hear bombs, a baby being born, an eagle flying, you hear things that people don’t normally hear”: how Jimi Hendrix pulled back from the brink of disaster at Woodstock and sealed his legend
By Rob Hughes published
The story of Jimi Hendrix’s iconic appearance at 1969’s Woodstock festival

"He grabbed me and said, I like you. You've got a lot of nerve": ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons on the night his teenage band supported Jimi Hendrix, and closed their set with Foxy Lady and Purple Haze
By Paul Brannigan published
When The Moving Sidewalks were picked to support Jimi Hendrix in Texas in 1968, they had just about enough songs to play a full set, but two of those were Jimi Hendrix hits
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