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Wild Thing

A shattering new biography of rock music’s most outrageous—and tragic—genius.

Over fifty years after his death, Jimi Hendrix (1942–1970) is celebrated as the greatest rock guitarist of all time. But before he

was setting guitars and the world aflame, James Marshall Hendrix was a shy kid in Seattle, plucking at a broken ukulele and in fear

of a father who would hit him for playing left-handed. Bringing Jimi’s story to vivid life against the backdrop of midcentury rock,

and with a wealth of new information, acclaimed music biographer Philip Norman delivers a captivating and definitive portrait of

a musical legend.

Drawing from unprecedented access to Jimi’s brother, Leon Hendrix, who provides disturbing details about their childhood, as

well as Kathy Etchingham and Linda Keith, the two women who played vital roles in Jimi’s rise to stardom, Norman traces Jimi’s

life from playing in clubs on the segregated Chitlin’ Circuit, where he encountered daily racism, to barely surviving in New York’s

Greenwich Village, where he was taken up by the Animals’ bass player Chas Chandler in 1966 and exported to Swinging London

and international stardom.

For four staggering years, from 1966 to 1970, Jimi totally rewrote the rules of rock stardom, notably at Monterey and Woodstock

(where he played his protest-infused rendition of the “Star-Spangled Banner”), while becoming the highest-paid musician of his

day. But it all abruptly ended in the shabby basement of a London hotel with Jimi’s too-early death. With remarkable detail, Wild

Thing finally reveals the truth behind this long-shrouded tragedy.

Norman’s exhaustive research uncovers a young man who was as shy and polite in private as he was outrageous in public, whose

insecurity about his singing voice could never be allayed by his instrumental genius, and whose unavailing efforts to please his father

left him searching for the family he felt he never truly had. Filled with insights into the greatest moments in rock history, Wild Thing

is a mesmerizing account of one of music’s most enduring and endearing figures


Forfatter:

  • Philip Norman

Fortæller:

  • Ako Mitchell

Format:

  • Lydbog

Varighed:

  • 14 t 20 min

Sprog:

engelsk

Kategorier:

  • Biografier
  • Kunst og underholdning
  • Kultur
  • Musik

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    Philip Norman

    Philip Norman er prisvindende engelsk forfatter og en af rockjournalistikkens mest respekterede skribenter Han har skrevet bestsellerbiografier om Buddy Holly John Lennon Elton John the Rolling Stones Mick Jagger samt den klassiske Beatles biografi Shout

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