Bibliograph

Two riders were approaching, the life and death of Jimi Hendrix, Mick Wall

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Label

Two riders were approaching, the life and death of Jimi Hendrix, Mick Wall

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-310)

resource.biographical

individual biography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Two riders were approaching

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Mick Wall

Sub title

the life and death of Jimi Hendrix

Summary

Jimmy was a down-at-heel guitarist in New York, relying on his latest lovers to support him while he tried to emulate his hero Bob Dylan. A black guy playing white rock music, he wanted to be all things to all people. But when Jimmy arrived in England and became Jimi, the cream of swinging London fell under his spell. It wasn't that Jimi could play with his teeth, play with his guitar behind his back. It was that he could really play. Journeying through the purple haze of idealism and paranoia of the sixties, Jimi Hendrix was the man who made Eric Clapton consider quitting, to whom Bob Dylan deferred on his own song 'All Along the Watchtower', who forced Miles Davis to reconsider his buttoned-down ways and whose 'Star Spangled Banner' defined Woodstock. And when his star, which had burned so brightly, was extinguished far too young, his legend lived on in the music and the intrigue surrounding his death. Eschewing the traditional rock-biography format, "Two Riders Were Approaching" is a fittingly psychedelic and kaleidoscopic exploration of the life and death of Jimi Hendrix -- and a journey into the dark heart of the sixties

Target audience

adult

resource.variantTitle

Life and death of Jimi Hendrix

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