Jimi Hendrix: Through Gypsy Eyes by Kathy Etchingham and Andrew Crofts (Orion)
Carol Clerk, Uncut, October 1998
JIMI HENDRIX flew into London for the first time in 1966, with a guitar and a bag containing a change of clothes, a jar of spot cream and a set of hair rollers. That was it.
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