JIMMY HENDRIX

Own name - James Marshall. American rock guitarist, songwriter and singer. His virtuosic style of playing guitar has become a legend. In 1966 he organized his own group. His technique of guitar playing has influenced the development of rock and jazz. "Do you have experience?" (1967) was his debut album. At the festival at Woodstock (1969) performed an unusual version of the American national anthem was also sounded in the movie "Woodstock".

In his veins flowed the blood of the Cherokee Indian tribe. He became the first non-white sex symbol. Embodiment of the call and sensuality. The author of such classic songs as "Purple haze" and "Voodoo Child", he left his own handwriting in the interpretations of tunes by the Beatles, Dylan, Chuck Berry. Four of his albums have enough generation of the sixties, to declare him a god.

Jimi Hendrix died in 1970 in London. Rock world has lost one of its few geniuses. Lost and a guitar - his biggest love. "He died as a result of an overdose of drugs," said a medical report. "King of Pop has been the victim of drugs" - the newspapers. The New York Times called him a black Elvis.

As a child he began to draw and write poetry. When he was seventeen, he was expelled from school, because "during a lesson, he held the hand of a white girl.

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" A year later he started skydiving. Sixteenth jump proved fatal for him - broke his ankle. He was released from military service, and Jim was not involved in the Vietnam campaign.

In late 1959 began a six-year period of "apprenticeship" in orchestras such renowned artists as BB King, Sam Cooke, Ottis Redding, Joe Tex, Ike and Tina Turner, James Brown and Little Richard. Three hundred watched it for the art of winning public. He never forgot those lessons.

In 1966, Hendricks had settled in Greenwich Village and there is created a group) "Blue Flames". From the African hair, an embroidered shirt and a colorful neckerchief Jimi played for $ 10 each night at a local institution, "Ya. " There, Hendrix said the ex-guitarist of "Enimalz" Chas Chandler, and persuaded a talented guy to go with him to London.

With the help of newspaper ads, they found two white musicians - Redding, and Michel. Sanchez took over the duties of manager of the "Jimi Hendrix ikspiriens. They became a real musical sensation in England and America, although part of the audience was first shocked by their appearance and behavior on stage. Famous Eric Clapton said: "I never heard anything like it!" The very first tour, Jim and his group in the U.

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S. , where they were accompanied by popular at that time a group of "Monkees" over the scandal and the prohibition to continue the tour. This event, however, did not affect the rapid growth in popularity of Jimi Hendrix.

At first Jimmy copes with the role of a rock star, which turned out quite unexpectedly and for himself. Three years, during which Jim was the zenith of fame, completely devastated it. He began abusing alcohol and drugs, including such as LSD and heroin.

Jim was a unique guitarist and composer. In addition, he was a virtuoso performer, who looked unusually, unusually dressed and could play the guitar with his elbows, teeth and tongue. Hendricks was one of the sexiest musicians in rock history, sometimes it seemed that he was seriously trying to rape his guitar on stage, without ceasing to benefit from it sounds fantastic.

After logged in the history of rock music, great performances on the pop festival in Monterrey in 1967, Hendrix poured on his guitar alcohol from the lighter and set fire to it than that, too, provoked a storm of enthusiasm. The ritual of breaking up and burning guitar, which became the same number of live Hendrix, has attracted a growing number of viewers. However, he soon tired of the guitarist shocking antics.

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Now he wanted to be seen as primarily a composer and performer, not a clown.

After the collapse of the first group has a new - "BAND OF dzhipsiz. Hendrix played in the New York jazz clubs, participated in a "jam seyshnz with well-known performers. He was preparing to release new albums, opened a cutting-edge recording studio in New York. In August 1970 he went to a festival in White. September 18 friend Jimmy found the lifeless body of her lover, and a note on the nightstand: "Life - just love -" hello "and" God be with you! "

Jimi on stage behaved depending on your mood: it calmly and politely, like a gentleman, then suddenly explode and destroy everything around it. Sometimes he was a shy and quiet, liked the loneliness, the high jinks of the company, friends and admirers.

Probably just as bad Jimi knew and understood himself, like all people around him. With it often had bouts of melancholy, successive outbreaks of rage - and then he would beat his mistresses, smashing furniture, in what later came to himself, afraid repented.

Most of his life Jimi did not think that he is "black" (he was half Indian and half Negro, and his stepmother was Japanese). Friends and lovers Hendrix, representing all races and many different nationalities.

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Today about his sexuality legends.

He was young, famous, had an exotic beauty and as a magnet attracted women. Jimi is to temper his amorous ardor, had to deal simultaneously with three of his friends. According to one of them, the love of his instrument was "almost the same size as a guitar. " At the end of 1960 Hendrix was a real black sex symbol for women all over the world.

Of course, in the life of Jimi had a lot of random links, but spared him a lot of love.

Katie Etchingem, a beautiful Englishwoman, of course, knew that Hendrix is ??very popular among women. She even fantasized that Jimi have children in Sweden, America and Germany, arguing that for Jim to have sex with a woman - the same as that for the average person to smoke a cigarette. " Jimmy, when he came to London, appearing in society Katy at parties. The girl tried to calm the wrong Jim. However, when one of them suffered an attack of jealousy, the case ended in a fight. During one of these fights Jimmy kick broke Katie's nose. A little later, she slyly took revenge on him, hitting a sleeping lover on the head with a frying pan. Their affair lasted three years. When Katie married, her husband graciously allowed the spouse to maintain friendly relations with the guitarist.

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For several years, Jimmy was the mistress of Devon Wilson, both of the duties of his secretary, a provider of drug and Procuress. He often worked with her love, was paying her salary and even dedicated her one of his songs.

Jimmy turned his attention and singer Marianne Faithfull, who was then the mistress of Mick Jagger. Once in London, Jim sat at a table in the club to Marianne and Mick and his back to Jagger, Marianne began to whisper in his ear, as he craves, and that she should go with him right now and throw all this Mick. Marianne refused.

When Jim met with Monica Danneman from Germany, figure skating coach, he has devoted a whole concert, attended by thousands of spectators. She was flattered, but initially stayed with Jim is very cold. Later, she really loved him and even told me that they were going to get married. True or not, to answer this question is impossible, but it is known that it was Monica and Jim that night, when he died.

However, any one of his passions has always remained in second place in the life of Jimi after the guitar, which he called "my electric lady. "