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...The exhibition was restaged last September by David Zwirner and Fraenkel galleries at Zwirner’s West 20th Street space in New York City....
...They drew from all sorts of western influences, from Jimi Hendrix to James Brown....
...Its iconic Stratocaster has been a favourite of rock guitarists ranging from the late Jimi Hendrix and Jeff Beck to Eric Clapton and Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour....
...The Drinker of Horizons by Mia Couto, translated by David Brookshaw (World Editions/Farrar Straus and Giroux) Couto’s “Sands of the Emperor” trilogy, an epic account of Portugal’s rapaciousness in Mozambique...
...The gallery sold classic shots of Frank Sinatra to Simon Cowell, photos of James Dean to Arnold Schwarzenegger and pictures of Jimi Hendrix to André 3000....
...From Jimi Hendrix to The White Stripes to Lana Del Rey, American rock and pop stars have a long history of moving to the UK before finding fame; for hip-hop artists it is almost unheard of....
...A British photography archive containing some well-known images of cultural notables including the singers Jimi Hendrix and David Bowie and actress Audrey Hepburn has been sold to a brand licensing company...
...He sees graffiti as an exercise in community and a refutation of the same social contract that the late David Graeber, his idol, railed against in his books. It’s bigger than him....
...Bowie and Jimi Hendrix – and their 14-year-old daughter....
...John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix and Leonard Cohen drift in and out of Utopia Avenue’s rise to prominence in equally clunky, occasionally mind-boggling, moments....
...The west side of Grosvenor Square is entirely taken up by the façade of Eero Saarinen’s former US Embassy (1957-60), currently undergoing conversion by David Chipperfield into a hotel....
...Eventually, the bottom line was fattened up by labels Warner acquired: Elektra, an old folky standby that in turn acquired David Geffen’s Asylum Records, home to Joni Mitchell and Jackson Browne; Sire, Seymour...
...Mitchell There are walk-on parts for Lennon, Hendrix and Bowie in Mitchell’s story of a fictional 1960s band — a novel that strives to capture tonal tension of that decade, the tension between the era’...
...Two wistful acoustic tracks, “Little Wing” (no relation to Hendrix’s song) and “Star of Bethlehem”, follow and, before you know it, it’s all over: an album that manages to be both slight and substantial....
...The original demos of David Bowie’s Let’s Dance — the whole album. I didn’t realise the estate had a copy. And a Robert Mapplethorpe photo of me commissioned by Andy Warhol....
...In 1974, he formed Van Halen with his older brother, Alex, as drummer, Michael Anthony on bass and David Lee Roth as singer....
...Yes, in 1967 you could go down Portobello Road and buy a colourful crushed velvet jacket knowing that Jimi Hendrix might well have been in to buy the same jacket at the same price....
...The Upper Cut Club in east London’s Newham, where Jimi Hendrix wrote “Purple Haze” in a dressing room in 1966, is now a ventilation shaft for the rail line to France....
...Think of Jacques-Louis David’s kitsch vision of Napoleon at the Alps. Or those biopics (Lincoln, Gandhi) that we feel shy to call out for their deathly ponderousness....
...The Urban Birder book by Londoner David Lindo will give you plenty of inspiration. Often, you hear a bird before you see it....
...The title track salutes African heroes from the continent and the diaspora — “Jimi Hendrix? Africain! Jacques Derrida? Africain! Angela Davis? Africaine! Frantz Fanon? Africain!”...
...Dudleya hendrixii is an endangered succulent discovered in Baja, Mexico, in 2016 and was — you guessed it — named after Jimi Hendrix, because the botanist who found it was listening to “Voodoo Child” when...
...Delayed by rain, Hendrix appeared on Monday morning when most of the crowd had gone home....
...Designed by late Irish architect David Collins, its textured walls in platinum silver leaf, dark leather and mirrored panels evoke a 1920s cubist aesthetic....
...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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