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

Sheila Weller, Rolling Stone, 15 November 1969

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.

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