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Article : Jimi Hendrix: I Don't Want to be a Clown Any More

Thu, 28 Jul 2005 01:11:34 PDT

Liberty, New York — Records, film, press and gossip are collectively ambitious in creating the image of a rock superstar. With Jimi Hendrix — as with Janis Joplin, Mick Jagger and Jim Morrison — mythology is particularly lavish.

Unfortunately, it is also often irreversible — even when it's ill founded or after the performer himself has gone through changes.

Several weeks ago, Life magazine described Jimi as "a rock demigod" and devoted several color pages to...

Article : Hendrix: The End of a Beginning Maybe

Thu, 28 Jul 2005 01:08:26 PDT

It was a New York winter day, frozen and gray and violently blustery. Indoors, out of the fearful cold, people seemed somehow gentler toward one another — strange in New York City — as if it was enough to battle the elements, no need to battle each other.

Inside his manager's neo-turn-of-the-century apartment, on a sofa near the radiant fireplace, sat Jimi Hendrix, in a gentle, almost reticent frame of mind. The light snow had begun to fall. You could see that through the narrow...