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Jimi Hendrix: Electric Rebel – An Appreciation

Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 19 September 1970

"THANKS FOR being so patient. Next time we will really try and get it together." Spoken two hours before a cold Sunday dawn, three weeks ago at the Isle of Wight, these words have become Jimi Hendrix's final farewell to his British audience.

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