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.’”...
...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....
...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....
...The property is right next to the Musée d’Orsay. Who Christie’s International Real Estate Long Island, New York, US, $4.75mn Where In the village of Old Westbury on Long Island’s North Shore....
...“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....
...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....
...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....
...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...
...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....
...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....
...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....
...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.”...
...But none has been more momentous than Jimi Hendrix’s version....
...I’d heard that there would be rock bands and people who lived in communes. People who were anarchists, even....
...I remember seeing one band’s accounting statement and they’d been charged for the champagne, food and taxis home from their own signing party!...
...What book do you wish you’d written? [JD Salinger’s] The Catcher in the Rye or Machine Dreams by Jayne Anne Phillips. What’s your favourite place in the world? London....
...I’d never seen a guy with a leather bag.”...
...The future belonged to “a new sort of band” — rockers such as The Jimi Hendrix Experience and Cream — while The Beatles and The Beach Boys retreated to the recording studio....
...A lot of Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix and such like. A lot of blues. If you could pack only one thing, what would it be?...
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