“For someone like Hendrix, who had known poverty, it had to be exhilarating to think, ‘I’m on the cusp of this unimaginable place’”: The remarkable untold story of Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Lady Studios – from the man who helped him build it

Jimi Hendrix wears a red bandana and a patterned shirt as he plays his Fender Strat live in 1970.

Take a walk down New York’s 8th Street in modern times and you’ll find barely a sniff of the ’60s counterculture that once pulsed in this neighbourhood. There is just one last holdout against the gentrification of Greenwich Village.

Blink and you’ll miss the mirrored gunmetal door. Yet beyond it lies the city’s most fabled recording studio, conceived by Jimi Hendrix in the late ’60s, operational by summer 1970, and the scene of the guitarist’s final creative burst before his death that September.