Hints and tips:
...Thanks to a vague, Google-translated description and the extremely reasonable price, the apartment I thought I’d booked turns out to be a grand, four-bedroom mansion....
...At the time I thought, ‘If I was a painter, I’d have painted that scene.’”...
...Jimi Hendrix, who also died at 27, released four albums in his lifetime but has had more than 80 appear under his name since his death....
...Beyond the main bar is a crepuscular stone-vaulted cavern, although you’d be lucky to get one of the candlelit tables: this place can be overwhelmed by drinkers in the early evening....
...Why The property was once home to Terence Donovan, the photographer who, during the Swinging Sixties, captured famous faces including Jimi Hendrix, Monica Vitti and Jean Shrimpton....
...“Before that, I’d look at a tag and I’d think, How has anyone done that with all the CCTV? Whereas nowadays, I’d knock that out at 3 o’clock in the afternoon on a Thursday....
...I’d also happily wear Emporio Sirenuse’s hippy deluxe 1970s linen stripe pants, which are giving strong Rolling Stones hit the Amalfi coast vibes (£702, net-a-porter.com)....
...When Jimi Hendrix played on fields on the island’s western tip, as many as 700,000 people went so wild that a new law was passed to ban such large gatherings....
...Up until then we’d done poetry at school and we’d dissected certain books, sometimes it felt just out of reach. There was something about that song especially that was more relatable and accessible....
...The dream logic of the countless episodes was possibly better suited to the small screen, but the soundtrack — anything from Hendrix-like guitar meltdowns to Ted Hughes — is consistently interesting and...
...He’s always interested in creating something that has a tactile quality, something kind of sexy, something you’d want to make love to,” laughs Lou....
...“I’d shoot the lot of them,” says a colleague I’d normally regard as a gentle animal lover. Since the new year parakeet haters have needed a special licence to do this....
...They’d send you a bag of Laurel Canyon dirt to promote Joni Mitchell, or sell you two-LP samplers of assorted Warner artists for $2 in the hopes you’d buy their full-length ones for the regular price....
...If you have time, explore the gardens with their monuments to the Imperial Camel Corps and D’Oyly Carte, looking up at “Big Benzene”, the clock at the top of the Art Deco Shell-Mex House that is even larger...
...I thought I’d end up dying of drug addiction or alcoholism. A lot of the people I idolised died really young. I remember seeing Jimi Hendrix perform and within a few weeks he was dead....
...I’m also worried that the queen might throw a strop when the music starts up: I’ve teamed up Jimi Hendrix, Mozart, Miles Davis and Angel Olsen....
...“That’s something I thought I’d never see,” he said: “That’s the Broadway version of the apocalypse.”...
...But I barely made it out of high school — I’d made the decision I wanted to be in the music business. A lot of my education was outside of school, writing beats in a friend’s bedroom....
...So when you walked out of the back gate at William Ellis, 99 per cent of the time it was fine, but sometimes you’d be walking up the hill and there'd be 12 skinheads and four of you . . ....
...In the time-honoured paternal way, his sports photographer father introduced him to Deep Purple and Jimi Hendrix....
...In 1969, when Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd shared a bill here, giant inverted “mushrooms” were installed in the roof to contain and reflect the sound better....
...While her contemporaries grooved to Jimi Hendrix, AKK bopped to the Bay City Rollers and joined the Junge Union, the youth wing of the CDU....
...But, according to English Heritage’s Spencer, while a blue plaque adds cultural capital to a property in terms of real financial value, “you’d be better off modernising a bathroom”....
...I was in any case a purple people person: Hendrix’s haze, Prince’s rain, April Stevens breathily talking the lyrics of Deep Purple: “In the mist of a memory, you wander back to me.”...
...Townshend: “We fired Mitch Mitchell and he went on to play with Jimi Hendrix.” Daltrey: “Did we really have Mitch Mitchell?” Townshend: “He did three gigs with us.”...
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