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Billy F Gibbons: What Jimi Hendrix means to me
By David Sinclair published
ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons on touring with Jimi Hendrix, playing Hendrix covers, and his favourite Hendrix songs

Jimi Hendrix at Monterey: "as if some alien from a hyphenated galaxy had zapped me with a ray gun"
By David Dalton published
Jimi At 50 Monterey, California, June 18, 1967: Pete Townsend smashes his guitar, but it's what Jimi Hendrix does that goes down in history

Listen to Zayn Malik, ex-One Direction, cover Jimi Hendrix's Angel to celebrate guitar legends' 80th birthday
By Louder published
JIMI AT 80 Zayn Malik covers Jimi Hendrix classic with estate's approval

The story of the historic night Jimi Hendrix "killed god"
By Kris Needs published
Jimi at 80 It was Jimi Hendrix vs Eric Clapton, and there was only ever going to be one winner

"Everybody was dumbstruck" - how Jimi Hendrix's arrival in London changed everything, as told by Mick Jagger, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck and more
By Johnny Black published
Jimi at 80 When Jimi Hendrix arrived in London in 1966, he not only blew the minds of fellow rock legends-in-making: he'd help spark a whole new form of electric blues

Watch as Grammy-winning guitarist Kingfish plays Hendrix so well he would've blown the roof off the Hard Rock Hotel if he wasn't already on it
By Tom Poak published
JIMI AT 80 Christone "Kingfish" Ingram plays Jimi's Red House – on the roof of Hendrix's last-known house

The night Jimi Hendrix dropped acid for the first time and the girl who changed his life
By Kris Needs published
It's New York, it's 1966, and Jimi Hendrix's life is about to be turned around by Keith Richards' girlfriend

"He did all this wild playing": Behind the scenes at Jimi Hendrix’s first ever live gig
By Charles R. Cross published
In 1959, the teenage Jimi Hendrix took to the stage of a Seattle synagogue to play his first ever live performance – only to be fired before the set had finished
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