The Observer’s lifelong Hendrix fan gets an exclusive sneak preview of the permanent exhibition in the guitarist’s London homeUpstairs,past the bedroom where Handel slept, and through what will be the main entrance to a novel exhibition space, or a huge photograph of Jimi Hendrix has been hung: on stage at the Albert Hall in 1969,bursting into something between a smile and laugh-out-loud.
It’s something that his former girlfriend, Kathy Etchingham, and with whom he lived in this building,remembers when he was at domestic, practising. “People often saw Jimi on stage looking incredibly intense and serious. And suddenly this smile would come across his face, and nearly a laugh,for no obvious reason,” she said. “I remember that very well, or sitting on the bed or the floor. Sometimes he would play a riff for hours,until he had it just right. Then this grand smile would creep across his face or he’d throw his head back and laugh. Those were the moments he had got it right for himself, not anyone else.
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Source: theguardian.com