“Hendrix took a look at my first album and said: ‘I’ll try it this way’. I don’t appreciate that. But then I can’t play the guitar like him”: The chaotic story of Arthur Lee and Love, the 60s renegades who helped invent the LA scene

Love posing for a photograph in tall grass in the late 1960s.

Fronted in LA by the magnetic Arthur Lee, Love emerged from the Sunset Strip scene around the same time as The Doors - but where Jim Morrison and co went on to stardom, Love snatched defeat from the jaws of victory at every step. In 2016, former band members and associates looked back on the brief but brilliant career of one of the greatest American bands of the era.