Jimi Hendrix was murdered ??

marcsignal

Or is this a spin off from all the speculation about Jacko ??

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/jun/02/jimi-hendrix

full article

Jimi Hendrix was murdered by his manager, according to a new book by one of the guitarist's former roadies. James "Tappy" Wright has claimed that manager Michael Jeffrey confessed to making Hendrix swallow sleeping pills, because he hoped to collect on his client's life insurance policy.

Jeffrey feared being replaced with a new manager, Wright writes in his book Rock Roadie, and decided Hendrix was "worth more to him dead than alive". Jeffrey was allegedly the beneficiary oo the guitarist's $2m life insurance policy (worth around £1.2m in 1970).

According to Wright, Jeffrey told him about the crime in 1971 – a year after 27-year-old Hendrix was found dead in a London hotel. "I had to do it, Tappy," Wright claims the manager said. "You understand, don't you? I had to do it. You know damn well what I'm talking about ... We went round to [his] hotel room, got a handful of pills and stuffed them into his mouth ... then poured a few bottles of red wine deep into his windpipe."

Hendrix was found dead at the Samarkand Hotel on 18 September, 1970. The cause of death was recorded as barbiturate intoxication and inhalation of vomit.

"I can still hear [the] conversation," Wright wrote of Jeffrey's confession, "see the man I'd known for so much of my life, his face pale, hand clutching at his glass in sudden rage."

Hendrix's manager died in a plane crash in 1973.

I can't believe he's dead.

That's awful

Sofaspud

Deleted User wrote: »

I can't believe he's dead.

That's awful

And I had tickets booked and everything!

Shane_C

Don't worry guys, the tour organizers are offering all ticket holders some custom LSD he synthesized before he died

I saw that guy being interviewed on BBC 2 months ago, I don't believe him.

SEPT 23 1989

Murdered or not he was a fine piano player

Poor Uncle Tom

marcsignal wrote: »

Jimi Hendrix was murdered...

happens every time there's a cover done...

ScumLord

RIP Jimi.

poisonated

I wouldn't say an ex-roadie would be a very reliable source.you always hear about this kind of thing and 9 times out of 10,It is someone trying to earn a quick buck.


by the way did you know that 70 percent of statistics are mad up on the spot

JerryHandbag

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Murdered or not he was a fine piano player

Noooo, thats Elton John your thinking of. Alas he is very much alive.

pablomakaveli

poisonated wrote: »

by the way did you know that 70 percent of statistics are mad up on the spot

Ya, three out of four people know that.

dr.bollocko

Not Hendrix too you callous bastard god.
Excuse me while I kiss this guy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hSW67ySCio

sceptre

marcsignal wrote: »

Or is this a spin off from all the speculation about Jacko ??

It can't be a spin-off from Jacko as it was in the papers at the end of May, which was before Jacko popped his clogs.

stepbar

Hendrix's manager died in a plane crash in 1973.

Pay back time! If he did kill his boss well he got what he deserved.

Pompey Magnus

"And I would have gotten away with it too, had it not been for that pesky roadie what I conveniently confessed the whole thing to and who is now writing a book about it 38 years later..."