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A portrait of rock legend Jimi Hendrix captures the full span of his life, from his troubled childhood and battles against racial prejudice to his rapid rise to the height of the music world and tragic death. Meticulously researched and based on more than three-hundred interviews with those who knew him best, a landmark book recounts the entire arc of the guitar legend's life, from his troubled childhood in Seattle's projects to his struggles against racial prejudice as a young musician and his rapid ascent to the top amidst the swinging London scene, and finally to headlining Woodstock in…mehr

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A portrait of rock legend Jimi Hendrix captures the full span of his life, from his troubled childhood and battles against racial prejudice to his rapid rise to the height of the music world and tragic death.
Meticulously researched and based on more than three-hundred interviews with those who knew him best, a landmark book recounts the entire arc of the guitar legend's life, from his troubled childhood in Seattle's projects to his struggles against racial prejudice as a young musician and his rapid ascent to the top amidst the swinging London scene, and finally to headlining Woodstock in 1969 and his death a year later.
'Charles R Cross has got as close to the truth as anyone yet in his exhaustive and ground-breaking account of the life of the greatest guitarist in the history of rock.' Observer
Autorenporträt
Charles R. Cross was the editor of The Rocket, northwest America's leading music magazine, from 1986 to 2000. He is now a freelance writer and journalist writing for diverse publications from The Times to Rolling Stone. His book, Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix, is also published by Sceptre. He lives in Seattle with his family.
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