Guitarist and songwriter. Born Washington, USA. View from the Mirror has done a wonderful job plotting Hendrix's London, with lots of pictures including ones we had not seen before taken on the day of his death. Died at the Hotel Samarkand, 22 Lansdowne Crescent, from a drug and alcohol overdose.
See Londonist for more on Hendrix's life in London.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Jimi Hendrix
The Bag o' Nails Club The Jimi Hendrix Experience first played here on the 25...
The web offers up a few Anna Kists but none with the prefix Lady.
Born Euston, the son of poor Jewish immigrant tailors. He attended the North London Polytechnic School 1931-3 and later won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music to study violin. Within four ...
Drummer. Born Daniel Joseph Anthony Meehan at the New End Hospital, Hampstead. He was one of the original line-up of Cliff Richard's backing group, The Shadows. He left the group in 1961 and event...
Founded as the Church Choral Society by the Reverend Henry George Bonavia Hunt. with the intention of improving the teaching of church music. In 1873 it became the College of Church Music, and then...
Opened in 1893 designed by the architect Thomas Knightley. He is said to have used the bellies of dead mice as a guide for the shade of grey that he required (but see below). He aimed at, and accor...
Seminal black British 1980s big band Jazz Warriors tenor saxophonist. Born Jamaica. As part of the Windrush generation his parents came to London. Ray joined them in East London in 1963. Died at th...
Executed for regicide. In the civil war he fought on the side of Parliament against King Charles I. Close to Cromwell, he was elected to the Long Parliament, sat as a judge in the King's trial and...
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