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Hendrix began his musical career in America but shot to stardom after forming the Jimi Hendrix Experience in London.
Hendrix referred to the flat, which he rented for £30 a week, as “the first real home of my own”.
A view of a blue plaque outside 23 Brook Street where musician Jimi Hendrix briefly lived in the attic of the Georgian townhouse in London.
Handel House Museum staff have been using Hendrix’s former bedroom as their office for half a century, but it’s now been carefully restored to reflect what it would have looked like when he lived there in the late 60s. He lived there for over a year with girlfriend Kathy Etchingham and had many notable jam sessions with other musicians during that time. The pair bought their curtains and carpets from John Lewis, the stalwart of the middle-classes.
Located at 23 Brook Street, Hendrix’s flat is connected to 25 Book Street, where composer George Frederick Handel had lived 240 years prior.
Jimi Hendrix’s old flat in Mayfair will probably be opened to the general public Hendrix moved in to the property in Jul. 1968, & the Handel & Hendrix exhibition will trace his life in London in 1968 & 1969.
The charity’s chairman told the NME: “While it has been a pleasure to have been working in Jimi’s bedroom for the past few years, it is even more pleasing to be able to throw it open to everybody else”.
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Tickets will go on sale this November on Handel and Hendrix House for the opening on the 10th Feburary 2016.
