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Room Full of Mirrors
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Room Full of Mirrors (2005) (edit title/settings)

A Biography of Jimi Hendrix

by Charles R. Cross (Author) (edit contributors)

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Now in paperback, the national bestselling biography of American musical icon Jimi Hendrix It has been more than thirty-five years since Jimi Hendrix died, but his music and spirit are still very much alive for his fans everywhere. Charles R. Cross vividly recounts the life of Hendrix,... read more

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  • “When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.”
    Jimi Hendrix
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  • “When the power of love overcomes the love of power,” Jimi once said, “the world will know peace.”
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  • “The disc itself is a nightmare show with lust and misery,” the review read. The Times thought even less of the album cover and suggested it “reinforced the degeneracy theme with the three sneering out from beneath their bouffant hairdos, looking like surreal hermaphrodites.”
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  • Though there are several versions of who exactly was in the audience, most accounts include Eric Clapton, Pete Townshend, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Mick Jagger, Brian Jones, Beatles’ manager Brian Epstein, John Entwistle, Donovan, Georgie Fame, Denny Laine, Terry Reid, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Lulu, the Hollies, the Small Faces, the Animals,
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  • He met the girl first. She was twenty-year-old Linda Keith, a strikingly beautiful model, who was everything Jimi was not: She was British, Jewish,
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  • “Very few people play fast and deep,” Santana recalled. “Most play fast and shallow. But Coltrane played fast and deep, so did Charlie
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  • Onstage in Ottawa, Jimi made what would soon become his standard reference to the Vietnam War: “Instead of all that action happening over there, why doesn’t everyone just come on home, and instead of
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  • “My mother and father used to fall out a lot,” he said. “I always had to be ready to go tippy-toeing off to Canada.
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  • The Hendrix boys were thereafter raised by Grandma Clarice Jeter, Grandma Nora Hendrix in Vancouver, Aunt Delores Hall, friend Dorothy Harding, and others in the neighborhood,
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  • most notably from Randy “Butch” Snipes. Butch could play guitar behind his back,
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Jimi Hendrix was born the day after Thanksgiving, 1942.

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Prologue: Room Full of Mirrors (Liverpool, England April 9, 1967)
Better Than Before: Seattle, Washington January 1875- November 1942
Bucket of Blood: Vancouver, British Columbia 1875- 1941
Over Adverage in Smartness: Seattle Washington September 1945- June 1952
The Black Knight: Seattle, Washington July 1952- March 1955
Johnny Guitar: Seattle, Washington March 1955- March 1958
Tall Cool One: Seattle, Washington March 1958- October 1960
Spanish Castle Magic: Seattle, Washington November 1960- May 1961
Brother Wild: Fort Ord, California May 1961- September 1962
Headhunter: Nashville, Tennessee October 1962- December 1963
Harlem World: New York, New York January 1964- July 1965
Dream in Technicolor: New York, New York July 1965- May 1966
My Problem Child: New York, New York May 1966- July 1966
Dylan Black: New York, New York July 1966- September 1966
Wild Man of Borneo: London, England September 1966- November 1966
Free Feeling: London, England December 1966- May 1967
Rumor to Legend: June 1967- July 1967
Black Noise: New York, New York August 1967- February 1968
New Music Spacequake: Seattle, Washington February 1968- May 1968
The Moon First: New York, New York July 1968- December 1968
Electric Church Music: London, England January 1969- May 1969
Happiness and Success: Toronto, Canada May 1969- August 1969
Gypsy, Sun, and Rainbows: Bethel, New York August 1969- November 1969
King in the Garden: New York, New York December 1969- April 1970
Magic Boy: Berkeley, California May 1970- July 1970
Wild Blue Angel: Maui, Hawaii July 1970- August 1970
The Story of Life: Stockholm, Sweden August 1970- September 1970
My Train Coming: London England September 1970- April 2004
Epilogue: Long Black Cadillac (Seattle, Washington April 2002- April 2005)
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Acknowledgments
Index

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  1. Charles R. Cross (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Hyperion
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Publication Date: 2005
ISBN: 1401300286
Page Count: 400

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