Jimi Hendrix's 70th birthday: celebrate with a classic interview

The guitarist and songwriter – born 27 November 1942 – found fame in the UK first. Here's an interview from when he burst to the scene in the States, published in the Detroit Free Press on 28 August 1967 – courtesy of Rock's Backpages, the world's leading archive of vintage music journalismNo exaggeration: the Jimi Hendrix Experience is the most exciting act I have yet seen in pop music.A small, musically hip group of kids turned out to see Jimi at the Fifth Dimension in Ann Arbor recently...

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