Jimi Hendrix - Suicide

Police arriving at London’s Samarkand Hotel the following morning definitely found Hendrix alone, lying dead in a pool of his own vomit. Perhaps the greatest musical talent of his generation was gone, in the saddest, most squalid way, the circumstances of which have been the subject of endless conjecture in the decades since, taking in suicide, medical incompetence, and even murder. But Jimi Hendrix was far from the drug crazed control freak that some would have him, more a sensitive, misguided soul frustrated and finally slain by the myth that had been encircling him for some time, when all he wanted to do was play.

Jimi Hendrix born November 27, 1942, died September 18, 1970

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