The Jimi Hendrix experience
Ironically, when Jimi left that morning for England, to perform at the Isle Of Wight Festival, he would never again see Electric Lady and, other than some tracks laid down during construction, never record there. Less than a month later he was dead of a supposed overdose. Rumors of Michael Jeffery’s unsubstantiated boast to a confidant, that he poured red wine and pills down Jimi’s throat that night, dissipated when Jeffery died in a mid-air collision over France a few years later. Conspiracy theorists contend the crash might have been a political assassination of the sleazy suspected spy with ties to European organized crime. In fact the skies had recently become an arena of political discontent. In Jordan, Palestinian guerrillas hijacked and exploded three passenger jets, holding 150 passengers as hostages. Then a Pan Am 747 was blown up in Cairo, hijacked in flight from Beirut. Two commandos tried taking an El Al 707 in Amsterdam, but you don’t fuck with Israelis. They didn’t make it.