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On September 18, 1970, American musician Jimi Hendrix died in London at the age of 27.One of the 1960s' most influential guitarists, he was described by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as "arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music."
Hendrix's paternal grandparents, Ross and Nora Hendrix, pre-1912. Hendrix was of African-American and alleged Cherokee descent. [nb 1] His paternal grandfather, Bertran Philander Ross Hendrix, was born in 1866 from an extramarital affair between a woman named Fanny and a grain merchant from either Urbana, Ohio or Illinois, one of the wealthiest men in the area at that time.
Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison all died at the age of 27 between 1969 and 1971. At the time, the coincidence gave rise to some comment, [ 16 ] [ 17 ] but, according to Hendrix and Kurt Cobain 's biographer, Charles R. Cross : "It wasn't until Kurt Cobain took his own life in 1994 that the idea of the 27 Club arrived ...
Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience: 27: September 18, 1970: Kensington, London, England: Asphyxiation on vomit after consuming an unhealthy amount of barbiturates [8] Janis Joplin Big Brother and the Holding Company: 27: October 4, 1970: Los Angeles, California, U.S. Heroin overdose [9] Baby Huey Baby Huey & the Babysitters: 26: October ...
The rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix died at the Samarkand Hotel, 22 Lansdowne Crescent, early on 18 September 1970. [7] He had spent the latter part of the previous evening at a party, was picked up by his girlfriend Monika Dannemann, and driven to her flat at the Samarkand Hotel. According to the estimated time of death, from post mortem data and ...
Charles R. Cross, the Seattle-based author and music journalist who wrote definitive biographies of Kurt Cobain and Jimi Hendrix, died Friday. He was 67. His death was announced in a statement ...
Monument at the crash site of the airplane carrying Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens; "The Day the Music Died". The following is a list of notable performers of rock and roll music or rock music, and others directly associated with the music as producers, songwriters or in other closely related roles, who have died. The list ...
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