Leon Hendrix,Adam Mitchell
More than forty years after his death, Jimi Hendrixâ€”recently named the greatest guitarist of all time by ,Rolling Stone, magazineâ€”continues to inspire fans. Many have written about Hendrixâ€™s life and music, but ,Jimi Hendrix: A Brotherâ€™s Story, provides a revealing and unprecedented look at this visionary icon: an intimate biography written by Jimiâ€™s younger brother, Leon.,Leon Hendrix takes us back to the days before Jimiâ€™s amazing rise to fame, beginning with their tough childhood in Seattle, when their fascination with science fiction and UFOs helped them escape a difficult family life. (Jimi insisted his family call him â€œBuster,â€ after ,Flash Gordon, actor Buster Crabbe.) The author reveals Jimiâ€™s early fascination with sound, from his experiments with plucking wires attached to bedposts to the time when he got in trouble for taking apart the family radio (â€œI was looking for the music,â€ he explained) to Jimiâ€™s purchasing his first guitarâ€”a Sears, Roebuck and Co. acoustic, from a neighbor.,Leon recounts Jimiâ€™s early days performing on the â€œChitlinâ€™ Circuit,â€ when Jimi would call from the road to play early versions of tracks for the classic album ,Are You Experienced,, and illuminates the biographical roots of Jimiâ€™s most well-known songs. Readers learn about the heady days of sex and drugs that came with Jimiâ€™s skyrocketing fame and how Leon felt Jimiâ€™s management isolated him from the rest of the family. The author speaks of his own heartbreak, learning of his brotherâ€™s sudden death while incarcerated in Washington Stateâ€™s Monroe Reformatory.,Commemorating what would have been Jimi's seventieth birthday, Leon Hendrixâ€™s poignant and captivating account sheds new light on a music legend.
Music,Biography,Nonfiction,Autobiography,Memoir,Music,Rock N Roll
Jimi Hendrix: A Brother's Story