Jimi Hendrix: London

by William Saunders

Overview

Describing how the city of London helped transform a little-known musician named Jimmy James into rock legend Jimi Hendrix, this revealing volume details how Hendrix helped transform London into a dynamo of popular music and social rebellion. The book examines Hendrix's impact on London's leading musicians—including the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and Eric Clapton—and follows Hendrix as he acquires a savvy manager, a tight band, and a forgiving girlfriend and launches himself into a breakneck career that whisked him from dingy clubs to Woodstock and recording and television studios. Each chapter introduces unforgettable characters and takes readers on a trip through the psychedelic era, concluding with Hendrix's tragic death in a London apartment. It explores the public as well as the private man, capturing the contrast between the wild showman on stage and the unassuming guy behind the scenes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780984316533
Publisher:	Roaring Forties Press
Publication date:	10/01/2010
Series:	MusicPlace
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	152
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

William Saunders is a journalist and poet and a regular contributor to the Guardian and the Independent. He has also written for the Daily Express, Just Seventeen, the London Evening Standard, Men's Health, the Observer, the Times, and the Times Literary Review. He is based in London.

Editorial Reviews

An in-depth and intimate look at the public and private life of Jimi Hendrix ... Full of shady characters and colorful antidotes.

Perceptive Travel Blog

More than just a potted but poetic guide to Hendrix's London years. It is also a rock music guidebook to London.

Suite 101

"An in-depth and intimate look at the public and private life of Jimi Hendrix . . . Full of shady characters and colorful antidotes."  —Perceptive Travel Blog

"More than just a potted but poetic guide to Hendrix's London years. It is also a rock music guidebook to London."  —Suite101

"One of the most definitive historical documentations of the period of Jimi Hendrix in his life when he lived in London. . . . A definitive chapter in Hendrix history." —Voodoo Child (March 2012)

"This is a fun book . . . a charming read."  —Curled Up with a Good Book

"An invaluable addition to the Hendrix bookshelf, and an absolute godsend."  —Charles Shaar Murray

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