Word: hendrix
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...understand that you had similar distribution problems with Monterey Pop, your film about the music festival, featuring breakout performances by Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix...
...that film, you recorded the now legendary footage of Hendrix's first major American concert. What was the mood in the audience like when he played...
...renowned scholar on the African diaspora attributed the timelessness of Jimi Hendrix’s music to his ability to resonate with multi-generational audiences in a lecture held in the Barker Center yesterday. As “an endless improvisor of tradition,” Hendrix was “prepared to lose his identity to find it,” Giddens Professor in Social Theory at the London School of Economics Paul Gilroy said of the cultural icon and his creativity. Hendrix’s innovation is largely responsible for the timelessness of his music, Gilroy said. Following...
...cheese." Hughes began freelancing art pieces for newspapers and magazines in London. There he met a lively Australian named Danne Emerson, got her pregnant and married her in 1967. But she preferred hard drugs and serial sex, giving Hughes a dose of the clap she picked up from Jimi Hendrix. Hughes fell into a hash-and-Scotch-fueled slough of pity and paranoia. A book on Leonardo da Vinci languished unfinished. A Time editor who had noticed his elegant freelance pieces phoned from New York one day in 1970 to offer a steady job, but Hughes drunkenly denounced the caller...
...Virgin chief Richard Branson, who in 1978 signed Culture?the band Hill fronted for 30 years until his death?to Virgin's new reggae label, Front Line. DIED. Ed Thrasher, 74, influential Warner Bros. Records designer who conceived some of rock's most definitive LP covers, including Jimi Hendrix's visually trippy Are You Experienced and Joni Mitchell's Clouds; of cancer; in Big Bear Lake, California. Among his fans, the easygoing art director counted high-profile artists, including Frank Sinatra, who let Thrasher title his 1973 comeback LP, Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back. DIED. Bismillah Khan, 90, ascetic Indian...