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...mere coincidence of time and happenstance. But it seemed to sum up an era with cruel finality. In New York last August, Rock Superstar Jimi Hendrix completed a record album, flew off for a brief tour of Germany, wound up in London, where he died of an overdose of sleeping pills. In Los Angeles, White Blues Queen Janis Joplin was finishing up an album of her own when she, too, perished of an overdose-in her case, heroin. They had both lived lives of loud, frenzied desperation that had made them, in the opinion of many, burned-out cases...
Their last records are now at hand. Anyone with an ear can hear that Janis and Jimi were far from burned out. Moreover, each was instinctively aware that pop music has started to move beyond the pulsating eroticism Janis and Jimi once typified toward deeper, more poetic expression...
...Panthers were on trial, in Algerian exile ?or dead. Anger remained, but it became reflective or confused. Celebrants of Woodstock became the survivors of Altamont, the California rock festival that ended in a knifing death, and the depredations of the drug culture clouded Aquarian visions?Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix, both cultural heroes for the young, fatally overdosed themselves with drugs. The hippie Camelot promised by Charles Reich in The Greening of America
...time when life seemed ready, for a change, to offer some answers. She was as aware as anyone of the deaths of major talents who tragically thought drugs were something they could gamble with and win; most recently there was the death of the king of rock erotica, Jimi Hendrix. In the fall of 1969, she was taking a six-month vacation "to clear my head." By last February she claimed to have kicked heroin. "I don't touch drugs," she told an interviewer at the time. "These kids who touch drugs are crazy when they can have...
...Jimi Hendrix, also 27, was found dead in his London apartment last month, having suffocated on vomit while unconscious...