Jimi Hendrix's London Apartment Officially Opens To The Public (PHOTOS)

LONDON -- A London apartment that Jimi Hendrix lived in is opening to the public as part of an exhibition marking the 40th anniversary of his death.

Hendrix moved into the top floor of 23 Brook Street with his English girlfriend, Kathy Etchingham, in 1968, two years after he came to London as a young, ambitious guitarist. The apartment was his home for long periods of time while he played gigs in venues across the capital.

For 12 days starting Thursday, visitors can tour the rooms in which Hendrix lived, wrote and entertained his friends. Organizers of the exhibition say all tickets to the apartment tours have sold out in advance.

 

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People walk past a Georgian house, turned into a museum where composer George Frideric Handel lived, where an exhibition devoted to Jimi Hendrix is being held, in central London. They were both immigrants in Britain who changed the face of music, one with a harpsichord and a composer's pen, the other with an electric guitar. George Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix also shared an address, living 200 years apart in adjoining 18th-century London houses. Now, 40 years after Hendrix's death, a new exhibition about his London years brings these two unlikely neighbors together. Handel lived at 25 Brook Street, a Georgian house in the tony Mayfair area for 36 years until his death in 1759. The museum devoted to his life uses the adjoining upstairs apartment where Hendrix lived as offices. \ AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis

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People walk past a Georgian house, turned into a museum where composer George Frideric Handel lived, where an exhibition devoted to Jimi Hendrix is being held, in central London. They were both immigrants in Britain who changed the face of music, one with a harpsichord and a composer's pen, the other with an electric guitar. George Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix also shared an address, living 200 years apart in adjoining 18th-century London houses. Now, 40 years after Hendrix's death, a new exhibition about his London years brings these two unlikely neighbors together. Handel lived at 25 Brook Street, a Georgian house in the tony Mayfair area for 36 years until his death in 1759. The museum devoted to his life uses the adjoining upstairs apartment where Hendrix lived as offices.

AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis

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[Gronkie]

11:21 PM on 09/22/2010

Hendrix and Handel lived in the same place? That is so cool....

[wackette]

06:39 PM on 09/21/2010

Misleading...

[Holypat777]

01:40 PM on 09/17/2010

Now I got "Electric Ladyland" (the song) in my head. That's my favorite album by JH.

Oh, here comes the solo: "Waon, wa-wa-waon, wa-wa- waon . . ."

Peace, all! :)

[onalimb]

12:03 PM on 09/17/2010

Riding with the wind.

[oregonrain]

03:22 PM on 09/19/2010

Little Wing.........One of fav songs . I know lots of other people covered it, but , Jimi's was my fav.

[Chaling]

10:32 AM on 09/17/2010

on that thought, NPR has been playing Jimi Hendrix tunes, but done by strings, cello specifically.
Anyone know anything about that?

[Gronkie]

11:20 PM on 09/22/2010

It's probably Purple Haze by Kronos Quartet. It was the work that put them on the map about 20 years ago.

[Chaling]

09:40 AM on 09/23/2010

thanks so much, it was Purple Haze and a few other songs, they must have made a whole bunch of them.(songs).. sacrilege Sacrilege...LOL.. actually it was pretty nice, since i like the cello sound, ima justa sayin'...

[Chaling]

10:31 AM on 09/17/2010

oh, I thought it was pics from back-then. Read his biography, one of them, about 3 months ago.
The Christopher Cross one, who is actually from Seattle. Carry Jimi Blues with me at all times.

[american-dolt]

09:21 AM on 09/17/2010

Imagine if he was alive today... I wish he was.

[CaveatLector]

07:35 AM on 09/17/2010

Love, love, love, Jimi.

[LolaP]

07:06 AM on 09/17/2010

kinda silly. It would only have been cool had it been left exactly the same since the 60's.

[filo]

06:01 AM on 09/17/2010

“For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.”

[siamao]

05:59 AM on 09/17/2010

The musical world is indeed small even across generations and genres.  So, on the
street where he lived, Jimi posthumously bumped into Handel.  Jimi also knew
about saxophone's great Trane (John Coltrane) through their mutual friendship with Miles.
One can even hear occasional Coltrane-like playing which sometimes appears in Jimi's
music.  Coltrane, too, was in another realm as to the frequencies which he could attain
on the sax, saying he could even make it rain!   And, as far as I know, no one has yet
been able to duplicate som of the sounds Jimi attained on the guitar.

[mirabay]

04:05 AM on 09/17/2010

The greatest guitarist that ever lived, play on, play on..................

[NoSillyName]

03:44 AM on 09/17/2010

Ah, to be able to go back to the days of innovation and exploration.

Anybody built that Time Machine yet?

[Earl]

07:08 AM on 09/17/2010

Demetri Martin says he has one in his basement, made of cardboard. But it only goes forward. In regular speed.

[NoSillyName]

02:21 PM on 09/17/2010

Oh, I don't think that would work. Unless maybe it went forward enough to come back around to the past.

[Kache]

12:12 AM on 09/20/2010

Been working on it now for over two centuries. Every time I test it I end up back before I started and have to reinvent it again. I'm working on a braking mechanism - but I think I've done that before, sometime, but then I'm not sure anymore, not sure I ever was sure, time is a real bitch man!

[NoSillyName]

01:02 AM on 09/20/2010

Oh, Kache, please hurry!! I'm waiting for you to pick me up in 1967. Make sure you've got the STOP AND STAY button perfected!

[jlab]

03:44 AM on 09/17/2010

One of the many sad things about Hendrix' early death is that he was about to make some significant changes to his music, and those who turned his legacy into some dreary eyed version of Disneyworld, would not have been able to follow him there. Let alone get away with all the crappy re-re-re-release-bootleg-demo-warmup-recordings. His father, unfortunately, is leading that pack of vultures.

[Frenchautopilot]

03:55 AM on 09/17/2010

Not his dad. His half sister.

[CaveatLector]

07:36 AM on 09/17/2010

Thought his dad just died.

[NoSillyName]

03:22 AM on 09/17/2010

I was very sad when Jimi died. Only got to see him once, toward the end. Love his music, especially the fusion stuff he was doing before he died. Gone too soon.