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Jimi Hendrix: Brother From Another Planet

Kris Needs, Record Collector, October 2010

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1970: It's all over the evening news that Jimi Hendrix has died at the age of 27. "JIMI HENDRIX DEATH RIDDLE" bellow next morning's tabloids, declaring, "Police were last night probing the mystery death of Jimi Hendrix, the fuzzy-haired Wild Man of Pop," a "victim of the pop-and-drugs culture he helped perpetuate".

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