Jimi Hendrix
Mat Snow, MOJO, November 2006
ON THE Friday night of September 23, 1966, former Animals bassist-turned-would-be-starmaker Chas Chandler, Animals road manager Terry McVay, and Jimmy (as he was then) Hendrix embarked on a first-class Pan Am flight from JFK Airport, New York, to London International Airport (as it was then) at Heathrow.
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