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Overview

The definitive account of Jimi Hendrix's inspiring and tragic life-from one of his dearest friends and most-valued confidants.

A young black man who captivated whites in the segregated sixties, Jimi Hendrix radiated genius and personality when he picked up a guitar. His fans admired him, loved and worshipped him-and still do. 2005 marks the 25th anniversary of his death. Jimi Hendrix: The Man, the Magic, the Truth is not just about looking at the rock legend who died at the age of 27. Rather, the book takes the reader inside his life, his death and its amazing aftermath. It is both a bio and a serious investigation. Jimi Hendrix: The Man, the Magic, the Truth will tell and show what ...

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The definitive account of Jimi Hendrix's inspiring and tragic life-from one of his dearest friends and most-valued confidants.

A young black man who captivated whites in the segregated sixties, Jimi Hendrix radiated genius and personality when he picked up a guitar. His fans admired him, loved and worshipped him-and still do. 2005 marks the 25th anniversary of his death. Jimi Hendrix: The Man, the Magic, the Truth is not just about looking at the rock legend who died at the age of 27. Rather, the book takes the reader inside his life, his death and its amazing aftermath. It is both a bio and a serious investigation. Jimi Hendrix: The Man, the Magic, the Truth will tell and show what really happened to Jimi Hendrix in his life and his tragically early death with rare, never-before-seen material including unpublished conversations, legal documents and insights from more than fifty fresh, pertinent sources who have previously kept their silence. The book will correct false information, illuminate key truths and supply facts that have been previously withheld from the public.

Sharon Lawrence met Jimi Hendrix in 1968 soon after becoming a young reporter. They hit it off and gradually she became a trusted friend, compassionate confidante and sounding board for Hendrix, whose fast fame found him disillusioned and overwhelmed with business and personal problems he could not have imagined in his worst nightmares. For three years Jimi discussed with Lawrence, at length, his music, his past, his family, his business concerns, his fellow musicians, his worries over The Experience, and his creative dreams for the future during intense, sometimes humor-filled, conversations. Lawrence was present in Jimi's last year of life and talked extensively with him in the days before his death on September 18, 1970, and has waited a long time to tell what she knows about Jimi Hendrix. She is the one and only person to tell the startling truths behind the remarkable life of one of rock n' roll's greatest legends.

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Mary Ishimoto Morris
Lawrence's insightful rendering of Jimi Hendrix the human being is the first written by someone whom Hendrix apparently trusted with his deepest thoughts and feelings -- about his music, family and career. Her Hendrix laughs, worries, shouts, cries, smokes, shares cherished photographs, talks about problems with his family, irons a shirt, flings furniture.
— The Washington Post
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Former UPI reporter and Hendrix confidante Lawrence (So You Want to Be a Rock and Roll Star) recalls the guitar player's brilliance in this sympathetic biography. She skims over his early years-his abandonment by his mother, his high school rock bands, his brief time as a paratrooper-but slows down once Hendrix gets to playing his guitar in earnest. After knocking around as a session player and winding up in New York, Hendrix signed with former Animals bassist Chas Chandler and went to England in 1965, where he blew away the likes of the Beatles, Eric Clapton and the Rolling Stones. He triumphantly returned to the U.S. for 1967's famous Monterey Pop festival, where he became an overnight superstar. But bound by bad deals he signed without counsel, under an intense media glare, exhausted by the road, busted for possession and trapped in a downward spiral of drugs, lawsuits and paranoia, Hendrix burned out. The year before his death, Lawrence writes, she watched Hendrix become a "Shakespearean protagonist... while a growing brood of greedy villains circled like vultures." On September 18, 1970, Hendrix overdosed on pills, which Lawrence believes was a deliberate act to "confront fate." While much has been written about Hendrix's meteoric career over the years, Lawrence's close ties to the musician and her well-written narrative make this book a welcome addition to the Hendrix canon. Agent, Martha Kaplan. (Feb.) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780060562991
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication date: 2/1/2005
  • Pages: 368
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 1.17 (d)

Meet the Author

Sharon Lawrence started her career as a reporter for the United Press International's Los Angeles bureau. Her specialty was the entertainment beat, including film and pop music. After more than five years with UPI, she became a management, marketing, and PR consultant for such clients as MCA, Columbia, Apple, and Rocket Record Company, as well as for major movie studios. She has worked with numerous artists including Elton John, David Bowie, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tim Rice, and Lynyrd Skynyrd. Lawrence is the author of So You Want to Be a Rock and Roll Star and Old Carmel in Rare Photographs. She lives in Los Angeles.

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Jimi Hendrix
The Man, the Magic, the Truth

Chapter One

Johnny/Jimmy

She loved a good time. There were few of them in her short and wretched life.

Lucille Jeter shook off the gloomy blanket of wartime anxieties that troubled all the adults around her, and despite her family's admonitions, she ignored the tedious drip ... drip ... drip of the Seattle evening rain to go out and dance every chance she got.

The sweet-natured and naïve "baby" of the Jeter family, Lucille hadabrotherandthreeoldersisters. Theirparents, Prestonand Clarice, were typical of many of the black residents of Seattle in the 1940s, men and women who had migrated west, seeking a better life but frequently disappointed. Born in Virginia, Preston Jeter possessed educationbut few opportunities. He worked,atvarioustimes,as a miner and as a longshoreman. His wife, Clarice, a native of Arkansas, brought in much-needed income toiling as cleaning lady and housekeeper. Welfare checks sometimes entered the picture. Mrs. Jeter's Pentecostal religion was both her rock and her social life; she worried and prayed about Lucille and her always fragile health. Lucille was inclined to overdo.

The sight of the pretty, tiny, pale-skinned black girl kicking up her heels and the sound of her giddy laughter as she was tossed into theaircaptivatedAlHendrix.Itseemedthatshewouldneverget enoughofthebrightlightsandspiritedjitterbugrhythms.Lucille loved her music!

Theexhilaratingnightsonthedancefloordidn'tlastlong. Weeks after the couple's first meeting, Lucille became pregnant and hurriedly married twenty-two-year-old Al, an attractive if not handsome bantamroosterofaman,standingbarelyfivefoottwo.She told her mother that she liked the way Al smiled at her.

Her young husband was an American citizen raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, who had settled in Seattle several years before to try his luck as a lightweight boxer in the city 's Golden Gloves competition. Al 's father, Ross Hendrix, was an Ohio native who grew up to becomeaChicagopolicemanandeventually,makinganexotic switch, took a job as stagehand for a vaudeville troupe. He married one of the dancers in the company, Nora Moore, the daughter of a full-bloodedCherokeemotherandanIrishfather.NoraandRoss Hendrix decided to give up the traveling life and make a new start in Vancouver. In quick succession Nora gave birth to two sons, a daughter,and finally to James Allen Hendrix, generally known as Al.

Since his education had ceased in the seventh grade and he was unprepared for any skilled work, Al turned to the love of dancing he 'd inherited from his mother to making a few bucks here and there in dance contests. His specialties were tap dancing, jitterbugging, and soloimprovisations.AlthoughAllater wastorefertohimselfasa member of an important show business family, Mama Nora worked longhoursinthekitchenofaVancouverrestaurantaftersheleft vaudeville; as a teenager Al was a waiter there.

WhenhemarriedLucille,Alhadperhapsonlythreethingsin common with his sixteen-year-old wife: They both were the youngest children intheirrespectivefamilies, they each lovedto dance, and theyhadachildontheway.Withindaysaftertheirmarriageon March 31, 1942, Al kissed Lucille good-bye. Drafted into the army, he was sent more than fifteen hundred miles away to Oklahoma, and then on to Georgia.

Lucille was barely seventeen when she gave birth to her first son, Johnny, on November 27, 1942. The birth took place at the home of Dorothy Harding, a good friend to Lucille 's sister Dolores. Relatives and friends joked about how strange it was that these two short peoplehad conceived such a graceful, long-limbed baby.

Raising a baby was no joke, and Lucille was unprepared to handle the transition from dropout schoolgirl to mother. Through an army snafu, she was not receiving any of Al's military pay. Not long after Johnny was born, Preston Jeter died of a heart condition. As a result, Clarice was plagued by financial problems. She loved Lucille's baby, butshecouldn'ttakecareofhimandalsoworkfivedaysaweek. ClariceandherdaughterDoloresweredeeplyconcernedabout Johnny'swelfareashewasshuttledaroundacircleofrelatives, friends, and even completestrangersin homes in and near Seattle. Week to week Johnny never was quite sure who was "in charge" -- a phrase that stayed with him. He slept on pillows, in baskets, and in otherpeople'sbeds;arealbabycribwasaluxuryJohnnyseldom knew.LucillefloatedinandoutofJohnny 'slife,the"Mama"he adored -- eveniftheyounggirlcouldn'tsupporthimor manageto take care of him for more than a few days at a time ...

Jimi Hendrix
The Man, the Magic, the Truth. Copyright © by Sharon Lawrence. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Available now wherever books are sold.
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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 9, 2008

    Jimi Hendrix: makes me cry!

    I am a big Hendrix fan, and my friend got me this book for the past christmas. I began reading it and i couldn't put it down! It is incredibly touching to read all of the painful, heart-crushing moments he went through, as a child and adult. This book was written by Sharon Lawrence, a close and dear friend of Jimi. He told her of these moments, and she seemed to be one of the few people that he felt he could trust, and who didn't want to cheat him out of money. As a child, young Jimmy (he changed his name to Jimi later on), he had a young mother of 17, and his father was 22. After his father went to the army, his mother had an affair, and wanted a divorce. Jimi and his two younger brothers were in custody of their father, but stayed with so many relatives day to day, he was often confused about who was 'in charge'. He and his brothers were physically, verbally, and mentally abused, malnurished, and dressed in rags. When Jimi and guitar married, it was his revelation. Nothing else could have saved him, created an escape such as this. He pursued the life of a musician. Even after he made it big, his life was still a twisting, tortuous one filled wth financial, relationship, and numerous other stresses. Peopl ejust wanted to cheat him and take advantage of his shy and polite personality. He was also framed for posession of heroin, causing an arrest in Canada, where he was released by bail. Lawrence's vivid portrayal of his life, public and personal, is an amazing and touching work for me. I recommend this bookj for anyone who cares to listen to this musical genius' struggling and against-all-odds times.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 28, 2006

    I am now a fan...

    of Jimi because of this book. I can't get enough of him after this reading. I am utterly disgusted by the actions of the Hendrix 'family', and felt betrayed by the family with their actions and lying over the next years after his death left me destroyed for a figure I had come to truly love through this book by Ms. Lawerence. This is an excellent starter to my study, anyones study really, of this legendary man.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 17, 2005

    BRAVO, HANDS DOWN THE BEST HENDRIX BIO OUT!!!!!

    Come share Ms. Lawrence¿s fond remembrances, and captivating stories about her friend Jimi that are described so meticulously that the reader walks away with a true sense of the nature and soul of a fascinating man whose name was Jimi Hendrix. Such an eloquently written book I could not put it down!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 14, 2005

    THE REAL JIMI

    This book has new information I've not read in any other book about Hendrix but then Sharon Lawrence was a true friend to Jimi. Her account of his life and death is riveting. You'll know the real Jimi when you read this wonderfully-written book about a great talent.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 5, 2005

    Touching and long Overdue!,

    I just finished Ms. Lawrence's compelling, honest, heartbreaking and touching biography of Jimi. I could not put it down. I have been a fan since I was 13 years old and while not a maniac had a curiosity about this musician who came and left all to quickly, but left an endelible mark on the music of his generation and many more to come. This book tells the story of Hendrix through the eyes of someone who cared about him, who had an honest relationship with him and this has allowed her to descibe this man in a way no other really could. She describes him in such a way that I was almost in tears by the time Sept 18th rolled around. Such a loss for all of us, one that I had not really comprehended before or for that matter mourned at the time. 2 months prior to his death he played at New Yorks Randalls stadium. I begged my mother to allow me to go and after hours of pleading she relented. I went early that morning in July because the radio station was looking for volunteers. For whatever reason I was selected to sit on stage and make sure people did not climb up during the shows. There were many acts that night, Tull, Grand Funk, John Sebastian and of course Jimi. I could not have been more than 6 feet away from him during that 60 minute set, virtually at his feat, watching in awe, the man whose records I listened to over and over again. I think back to that time every so often and after reading Ms. Lawarence's book much of the dynamics of that night started to come back to me. Now if I could only find a copy of the video, I could die a happy man! Any way read this book, even if your not a Hendrix fan. He was a good man who treated people fairly and who really got a raw deal in life. I never would have known many of the things that I learned in this book and I'm a better person for having been a fan and been able to sit at the masters feet all those years ago! JOHN HOVING NYC

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 28, 2005

    Great Book!

    This is by far the best book I've read about Hendrix..It shows him as very human artist, who was exploited from day one..as were most performers of that day..A fantastic reading experience.

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