'Scuse Me While I Kiss The Sky
Jimi Hendrix's explosion on to the rock scene is one of the most remarkable legends in music history. Fusing blues, jazz and psychedelia with an outrageous personal style and image, Hendrix is still revered as the most important instrumentalist in the history of rock. He died at the age of 27, his private nightmares awash in a torrent of drugs and alcohol.
In 'Scuse Me While I Kiss The Sky', David Henderson captures the essence of Hendrix's intense, apocalyptic and ultimately tragic life in a brilliantly researched biography hitherto available only in the USA.
Here is the definitive Hendrix: his boyhood in Seattle, his years in the US Air Force, his reputation as the best sideman around, his manic trip to London and superstardom, the songs, the concerts, the flaming guitars, the drugs, the booze, the women and, most important, the incomparable legacy he left behind.
Includes selected discography and many black-and-white photographs.
