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THE MAN for whom the words "Wild One" were invented has hit us! Jimi Hendrix, 22, from Seattle, Washington, U.S.A., courtesy of ex-Animal Chas Chandler ...

Jimi Hendrix: Are You Experienced (Track)

Review by Keith Altham, NME, 20 May 1967

Track-by-Track on Jimi Hendrix debut album ...

Jimi Hendrix: Jimi Brings Manager's New Club Roof Down!

Report by Keith Altham, NME, 27 July 1968

JIMI HENDRIX literally brought the roof down on the opening night at his manager's club, Sergeant Peppers in Majorca by the simple expedient of ramming ...

Jimi Hendrix Burns His Guitar For The First Time

Essay by Keith Altham, Q, July 1994

Date: March 31, 1967 Location: Astoria Theatre, LondonTHE BRIGHT LITTLE pyromaniac who told Jimi Hendrix to set fire to his guitar? Yup, that’s me. Thirty-three ...

Jimi Hendrix (1970)

Interview by Keith Altham, Rock's Backpages Audio, 11 September 1970

In the last interview Hendrix did, a week before his death, he talks poignantly about his plans for the future, and looks back at his past.

File format: mp3 File size: 28.6mb Interview length: 31 minutes 17 seconds Sound quality: ****

Jimi Hendrix, The Walker Brothers: Walker Brothers/Cat Stevens/Engelbert Humperdinck/The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Finsbury Park Astoria

Live Review by Keith Altham, NME, 8 April 1967

WE WERE WELL and truly blitzed with "mini-happenings" on the Walker Brothers’ tour opening night, at Finsbury Park Astoria last Friday, when Jimi Hendrix literally ...

Jimi Hendrix: Hendrix IS Out Of This World

Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 15 April 1967

EVEN HIS EX-ANIMAL MANAGER NEEDS A SPLIT PERSONALITY! ...

Jimi Hendrix: The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Axis: Bold As Love (Track)

Review by Keith Altham, NME, 25 November 1967

UFO COULD BE JIMI! ...

Jimi Hendrix, Noel Redding: The Angels Did Sing: Noel Redding 1945-2003

Memoir by Keith Altham, Rock's Backpages, May 2003

MY FIRST TRIP to the U.S. for the New Musical Express was with The Jimi Hendrix Experience for the Monterey Festival. So the sad death ...

James Taylor, Jimi Hendrix: James Taylor: On The Road With Sweet Baby James

Interview by Keith Altham, Record Mirror, 15 May 1971

AMONG THE very few road managers who have put their heads, hearts, hands and feet into their work is Super-Scot Eric Barrett who hit the ...

Small Faces, The: The Small Faces: Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake

Review by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 25 May 1968

THE SMALL Faces new album Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake (Immediate), apart from being encased in the first circular sleeve I have ever seen, is a ...

Animals, The, Association, The, Big Brother & The Holding Company, Booker T & The MGs, Buffalo Springfield, Electric Flag, Richie Havens, Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane, Mamas and The Papas, The, Lou Rawls, Otis Redding, Ravi Shankar, Simon & Garfunkel, Who, The, Blues Project, The: Keith Altham Planes West to Cover America's Monterey Pop Festival and Cables This Day-By-Day Report

Report by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 24 June 1967

WE DROVE to London Airport in Animal manager Mike Jeffery's Rolls-Royce while he dictated a few last minute instructions to assistant Tony Garland — "Ring ...

Jimi Hendrix: Hendrix Admits Lamp Is A Bit Smoky

Interview by Keith Altham, NME, 9 September 1967

TIME TO TUCK the tiny tots up and put them safely abed with a nice Monkees' record! Why? Because "the electric bogeyman" is back in ...

Jimi Hendrix: Mitch Mitchell, 1947-2008

Obituary by Keith Altham, Uncut, January 2009

Jimi's mercurial drummer, remembered by his friend and publicist Keith Altham. ...

Rolling Stones, The: The Rolling Stones: Beggars Banquet (Decca)

Review by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 23 November 1968

I KEEP changing my mind about Beggars Banquet which is the Rolling Stones new album in the sleeve which has now been passed fit for ...

Cream Cut Loose

Interview by Keith Altham, NME, 4 February 1967

THIS IS THE Cream interview which got loose in London – ran wild over their publicists' office – finally plunging from the depths of Mao ...