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Bill DeMain

"Everybody was leaning over the banisters to listen to this guy sitting in the corner of the club playing. They were enthralled.” This is what happened when Jimi Hendrix landed in London for the first time

The Jimi Hendrix Experience in London, late 1966: Noel Redding, Jimi Hendrix, Mitch Mitchell.

In September 1966, 23-year-old Jimi Hendrix hit London like a one-man invading army, going from unknown American sideman to guitar-slinging supernova in four months.

The original version of this feature appeared in Classic Rock 250, in May 2018.
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