In his brief four-year reign as a superstar, Jimi Hendrix expanded the vocabulary of the electric rock guitar more than anyone before or since. Hendrix was a master at obtaining a manner of sounds from his instrument, often with innovative amplification experiments that produced high feedback and deafening distortion. His frequent blasts of noise and amazing showmanship has sometimes obscured his significant gifts as a songwriter, singer, and master of a range of blues, R&…showed first 75 words of 839 total…

…showed last 75 words of 839 total…versions of his state of mind in 1970. Contradictory versions of his final days have been given by his closest acquaintances of the time. He'd been working intermittently on a new album, tentatively titled First Ray of the New Rising Sun. He died in London on September 18, 1970, from drug-related complications. Hendrix's Legacy lives on to this day. Most recently his father built a grand memorial in his honor after wining legal rights to his sons music.