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Wild Thing - The Short, Spellbinding Life of Jimi Hendrix (Hardcover)
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Wild Thing - The Short, Spellbinding Life of Jimi Hendrix (Hardcover)
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Over fifty years after his death, Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970) is
celebrated as the greatest rock guitarist of all time. But before
he was setting guitars and the world aflame, James Marshall Hendrix
was a shy kid in Seattle, plucking at a broken ukulele and in fear
of a father who would hit him for playing left-handed. Bringing
Jimi's story to vivid life against the backdrop of midcentury rock,
and with a wealth of new information, acclaimed music biographer
Philip Norman delivers a captivating and definitive portrait of a
musical legend. Drawing from unprecedented access to Jimi's
brother, Leon Hendrix, who provides disturbing details about their
childhood, as well as Kathy Etchingham and Linda Keith, the two
women who played vital roles in Jimi's rise to stardom, Norman
traces Jimi's life from playing in clubs on the segregated Chitlin'
Circuit, where he encountered daily racism, to barely surviving in
New York's Greenwich Village, where was taken up by the Animals'
bass player Chas Chandler in 1966 and exported to Swinging London
and international stardom. For four staggering years, from 1966 to
1970, Jimi totally rewrote the rules of rock stardom, notably at
Monterey and Woodstock (where he played his protest-infused
rendition of the "Star-Spangled Banner"), while becoming the
highest-paid musician of his day. But it all abruptly ended in the
shabby basement of a London hotel with Jimi's too-early death. With
remarkable detail, Wild Thing finally reveals the truth behind this
long-shrouded tragedy. Norman's exhaustive research reveals a young
man who was as shy and polite in private as he was outrageous in
public, whose insecurity about his singing voice could never be
allayed by his instrumental genius, and whose unavailing efforts to
please his father left him searching for the family he felt he
never truly had. Filled with insights into the greatest moments in
rock history, Wild Thing is a mesmerizing account of music's most
enduring and endearing figures.
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