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November 29, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live in Maui

Jimi Hendrix Experience Live in Maui Sony Legacy So the story goes, that ratfink manager (Michael Jeffery) managed to score a couple of million for Hendrix to play in Hawaii and for a doco to be made – the manager made off with half of it and left a mild catastrophe to unfold. The film […]

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September 18, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Jimi Hendix Has Been Dead For 50 Years And His Music Lives On And There Is No One Better

The first thing I heard by Jimi Hendrix was Voodoo Chile (Slight Return). And then the smelling salts. When I was back on two legs, I remember asking my dad if he knew anything about this guy that sounded like nothing else I’d heard. He laughed and reeled off the names of a few of […]

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July 3, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Jimi – All Is By My Side: Film

Jimi: All Is By My Side Director: John Ridley Darko Entertainment/Freeman Film/Subotica Entertainment This Jimi Hendrix biopic – that isn’t really a biopic, aiming rather to be a portrait of the year leading up to Hendrix becoming a superstar – isn’t so much “based on a true story” (as it tells us before its opening […]