Source: Classic Rock Magazine

Jimi Hendrix’s London home is finally to be opened to visitors after years of pleading from fans.

The guitar icon rented the Brook Street apartment for £30 a week in the late 1960s, and once described it as “the only home I ever had.” Since 2001 it’s been the office space for staff of the Handel House Museum – classical composer George Frederick Handel lived in another part of the same building in the 1750s.

Hendrix’s home was briefly opened to the public in 2010 and tickets were booked out almost immediately. Now a Heritage Lottery Fund grant of £1.2m means museum staff can be moved out of the rooms and they’ll be redecorated to look the way they did in the 60s.

Lottery Fund boss Wesley Kerr tells the Guardian: “The Handel House Museum is one of the most precious and evocative places in London. To visit the beautifully restored home where one of history’s greatest composers lived, and invented some of the finest music ever written, is already pure joy.”

“The grant will make available to visitors the neighbouring flat where Jimi Hendrix – another extraordinary musical emigre from a more recent era – found inspiration and happiness, transcending musical boundaries in the heyday of rock’n’roll.”

Source: Bravewords.com
According to The Guardian, a permanent museum is to be created in a bland office space in a London attic. They are rooms that rock music pilgrims have been pleading to get into for decades – the rooms rented in the late 1960s by JIMI HENDRIX, poignantly described by him as “the only home I ever had”.

The Heritage Lottery Fund will soon announce a £1.2m grant to restore the rooms to their appearance during 1968, when Hendrix paid £30 a week to share the flat with his girlfriend, Kathy Etchingham. The rooms will hold displays on his life, work and musical legacy.

A unique pair of blue plaques on the outside wall of the 18th-century listed building celebrates the two musical giants whose time there was separated by centuries: Hendrix lived at No 23 Brook Street, and George Frideric Handel at No 25. The Mayfair properties, separate houses when constructed in 1721, are now linked as the Handel House Museum.

Read more at The Guardian.

Source: Bravewords.com

According to the NY Daily News, a Greenwich Village three-bedroom condominium where guitar legend JIMI HENDRIX stayed after his legendary 1969 performance at Woodstock is on the market for $6 million US.

The Village home currently belongs to a partner at furniture and interior design firm Carolina George, whose pieces furnish the abode.

The 2,500-square-foot apartment was cobbled together from two smaller units on the 11th floor. The mint-condition condo is located at 59 West 12th Street.

The building has been a draw for 82 years.

According to Bravewords.com, The final interview given by JIMI HENDRIX was broadcast on radio in its entirety on the 43rd anniversary of his death (September 18th) by TeamRock Radio. It is available for streaming below:

https://soundcloud.com/teamrockradio/jimi-hendrix-last-ever-interview

The half-hour exchange took place in London’s Cumberland Hotel five days before the great guitarist was found dead at an apartment in Notting Hill in 1970 at the age of 27.

Keith Altham, the journalist who conducted the interview, saw Hendrix perform three days after he first arrived in England in 1966 and knew him for much of his final four years.

“He was an extraordinary force and used that guitar like a third arm, he was like two people on one guitar,” he told The Independent. “He was an assimilation of all the music styles he had been through in his early career when he had played with the ISLEY BROTHERS and IKE & TINA TURNER and LITTLE RICHARD. He wasn’t just a blues guitarist or a jazz guitarist or a rock and roll guitarist – he was all of them rolled into one.”

Read more at The Independent.

Source: Bravewords.com

According to The Independent, the final interview given by JIMI HENDRIX is to be broadcast on radio in its entirety today on the 43rd anniversary of his death (September 18). The interview will be broadcast on digital station TeamRock Radio at 6pm this evening.

The half-hour exchange took place in London’s Cumberland Hotel five days before the great guitarist was found dead at an apartment in Notting Hill in 1970 at the age of 27.

Keith Altham, the journalist who conducted the interview, saw Hendrix perform three days after he first arrived in England in 1966 and knew him for much of his final four years.

“He was an extraordinary force and used that guitar like a third arm, he was like two people on one guitar,” he told The Independent. “He was an assimilation of all the music styles he had been through in his early career when he had played with the ISLEY BROTHERS and IKE & TINA TURNER and LITTLE RICHARD. He wasn’t just a blues guitarist or a jazz guitarist or a rock and roll guitarist – he was all of them rolled into one.”

Read more at The Independent.