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Jimi Hendrix Biography Reveals Secrets
'Room Full of Mirrors' breaking his ankle on a
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Charles R. Cross holds his new book, “Room Full of Mirrors,
biography o f Jimi Hendrix, at his home in Shoreline, Wash.
(AP Photo)
of wood with a single string. When
he was 16, his father bought him a
right-handed electric guitar that
Hendrix had to restring to play lefty.
After his discharge, Hendrix
formed a band with former Army pal
Buddy Cox and began touring
Southern clubs on the “Chitlin’
Circuit.” During those years, from
1963-65, Hendrix played to black
audiences with the King Kasuals
and as a backup to Solomon Burke,
Otis Redding, Curtis Mayfield and
Michael Jackson
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(AP) - Michael Jackson sought medi
cal attention after his trial as he tried to
recover from a back injury and dehydra
tion, his lead attorney said Friday.
“This really took a toll on him,” attor
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phone interview. “My understanding is
he checked in. Nobody knew about it.”
Jackson was acquitted of molestation
and conspiracy charges last month in
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The pop star’s representatives said
he was plagued by back troubles through
out the trial, beginning with a fall that
resulted in a trip to an emergency room
in March. The judge ordered him back to
court, and he arrived wearing pajama
bottoms and a T-shirt, walking stiffly.
Reporters staked out a hospital where
Jackson made at leas, two visits during
Little Richard.
Unable to make a living in the
States - primarily because of his
color - Hendrix went to England in
1966 and took London by storm
with his now-polished blend of soul,
blues and rock. Within eight days
of his arrival, he floored guitar gods
like Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck.
Hendrix remained in London for
nearly a year, forming the Jimi
Hendrix Experience and releasing
his first album.
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(A P) - On his way to the
Monterey Pop Festival in summer
1967, Jimi Hendrix was mistaken for
a bellhop by a woman at the Chelsea
Hotel during a layover in New York.
It was a cold reminder of his
ethnicity, said Charles R. Cross in a
new biography on Hendrix called
“Room Full of Mirrors.”
Hendrix was always uneasy be
ing one of the first black stars to
attract a white audience; he wanted
to be welcomed by blacks, too.
Following Woodstock, his friends
tried to arrange a show for him at the
Apollo in Harlem, where his friends
teased him about his drug of choice
- LSD - being a “white” drug. The
legendary theater refused, afraid
the concert would draw too many
whites.
The biography also suggests that
Hendrix might have stayed in the
Army. He might have been sent to
Vietnam. Instead, he pretended he
was gay. And with that, he was dis
charged from the 101st Airborne in
1962, launching a musical career that
would redefine the guitar, leave ether
rock heroes of the day speechless
and culminate with his headlining
performance of “The Star-Spangled
Banner” at Woodstock in 1969.
Hendrix’ s subterfuge, contained
in his military medical records, is
revealed for the first time in the
biography. Publicly, Hendrix always
claimed he was discharged after
women negates the notion that he
might have been gay, Cross writes.
He just wanted to escape the Army
to play music - he had enlisted to
avoid jail time after being repeat
edly arrested in stolen cars in Se
attle, his hometown.
“Room Full of Mirrors,” titled
after an unreleased Hendrix tune, is
being published this summer to
coincide with the 35th anniversary
of his Sept. 18, 1970, death from a
sleeping-pill overdose.
The new bio is culled from nearly
four years of research, including
access to Hendrix’s letters and dia
ries, along with military records
provided by a collector the author
w on’t name. Cross focuses on
Hendrix’s complex personal life and
psyche more than his music.
“It’s not how much I know about
Jimi’s B-sides; it's how much I know
about the emotional arc of his life,”
Cross said in an interview.
Cross, who lives just north of
S e a ttle , d e sc rib e s H e n d rix ’s
troubled childhood. Jim i’s father,
A1 Hendrix, and mother, Lucille,
both had drinking problems. Al, a
landscaper, rarely found decent-
paying jobs and frequently split
with Lucille. Jimi and his siblings
were often left by themselves, or in
thecareoffamily friends. Jimi even
tually flunked out of high school.
Before Hendrix even owned a
proper guitar, he played air guitar
using a broom, then a beat-up hunk
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