Hendrix was not born into stardom nor was it given to him by any means. He strived all throughout his life to be the very best. Johnny Allen Hendrix was born on November 27, 1942 in Seattle, Washington to Al and Lucille Hendrix. Four years later did his father decided to change his son's name to James Marshall Hendrix. He did not lead an easy life. He changed schools quite often and to top it all off his parents divorced in 1958. To add to it all, his mother died just one year later ('Scuse Me While..., Henderson 42). Hendrix needed something to turn around his life.

Hendrix purchased his first guitar in 1958. It was a used acoustic for which he paid only five dollars. At the age of seventeen with only one year's playing experience, he joined his first band, t

He had already begun work on Electric Ladyland, the Experience's third album, in the middle of 1967. The album was a reflection of his life, and the music was filled with melancholy, angst, loneliness, and fear (Glebbeek 53). It took a year to complete simply because Hendrix was a perfectionist and strived to get every piece of his music exactly the way he envisioned it. The hard work paid off as it was the only number one album for Hendrix. However, the non-stop recording and tour schedules foreshadowed what each of the members knew would come soon, the end of the Experience (Cox 286).

9. Mitchell, Mitch. Platt, John. Hendrix Experience. New York: Harmony Books, 1990.

The life of this amazing man ceased to an abrupt and all too hasty end on September 18, 1970 when he was but twenty-seven years old. He became ill from a mixture of wine and quinalbarbitone, a sleeping pill prescribed not to Hendrix but to his girlfriend (Mitchell 208). When the ambulance was called, they rushed to his London hotel and dashed him back to the hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. The attendants had carelessly laid him on his back; as a result of their ineptitude, he asphyxiated in his own vomit (Mitchell 213).

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