Few rock deaths have cast a longer shadow than that of Jimi Hendrix, the American guitar virtuoso who passed away in London in 1970. For 25 years fans have been asking the quesitons, how did he die? And why?
Now, for the first time, writer and Hendrix archivist Tony Brown answers these questions. Using the techniques of a detective, Brown has spent over 100 hours interviewing key figures who were present at the time, and uncovers hitherto unpublished information from police, ambulance and hospital records.
The result is an hour-by-hour account of Hendrix's demise that charts in greater detail than ever before the downward spiral of events that would ultimately lead to his death. It becomes very clear that these last three weeks were probably the worst of his life.
Includes transcripts of all the interviews Hendrix gave during his last three weeks, detailed accounts of all his final concert performances during this period, eye witness accounts from friends and an exhaustive analysis of his movements on the night of his death.
Includes 16 pages of black-and-white photographs many of them taken during the final days of Jimi Hendrix.
