Excellency Hall of Fame: James Marshall “Jimi” Hendrix, Born Johnny Allen Hendrix (November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970)

Jimi Hendrix at Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, 1968. Image via Jeffrey Scales via The New York Times. © Jeffrey Scales/HSP Archiv.

Reading BECOMING JIMI HENDRIX, From Southern Crossroads to Psychedelic London, the Untold Story of a Musical Genius, by Steven Roby and Brad Schreiber, recently reviewed in The New York Times. Excellent. Outstanding.