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“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
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
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
"I was employed to take Jimi Hendrix round Paris for an evening, show him a good time": Pink Floyd's David Gilmour on his adventures in 1960s France, hanging with Jimi Hendrix, partying with Brigitte Bardot and getting arrested with Syd Barrett
For future Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour, '60s France offered a sense of freedom that he didn't find at home in Cambridge, until he got arrested busking with Syd Barrett
Six songs to understand the electrifying genius of Mitch Mitchell
A jazz-schooled drummer at the forefront of the rock explosion, Mitchell brought the two genres together to devastating effect as part of the Jimi Hendrix Experience
"Electric Ladyland was one of those albums that I look back on now and think 'Good grief! What the hell were we doing?'": the road to Jimi Hendrix's final studio masterpiece
As Jimi Hendrix's landmark album Electric Ladyland celebrates its 55th anniversary, we look at what made Hendrix the first true star of a very ‘white’ scene
10 cover versions absolutely loved by the people who wrote them
Jimi Hendrix, Whitesnake, Heart and Johnny Cash have all performed covers that got the blessing of the people who wrote them
11 iconic guitars and the legendary guitarists who played them
From Jimmy Page’s double-necked Gibson to Brian May‘s Red Special, these are the guitars that became legends in their own right
The most played live songs by 25 iconic rock bands
Which songs have Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, AC/DC, Queen and others played live the most? Spoiler: contains surprises
“He found things that other people wouldn’t think of finding in there”: how Jimi Hendrix turned Bob Dylan’s All Along The Watchtower into one of rock’s greatest songs
Multiple sessions, countless takes and a drunken Brian Jones – how Jimi Hendrix claimed All Along The Watchtower as his own
