Iconic guitarist Jimi Hendrix may have been murdered, according to the doctor who tended him on the night he died.
Jimi Hendrix arrived in Britain in September 1966. The charts were full of post-Mersey pop, while the hipper clubs were playing host to a generation of groups who were just beginning to cut their teeth as jazz inspired improvisers.
Whereas musicians such as Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck had only dreamed of the tough American chitlin circuit, Jimi Hendrix had been there and done that. Absorbing tricks such as playing the guitar with his teeth or behind his back, the guitarist famously jammed onstage with Cream and blew Eric Clapton right out of the theatre.
An instant star, The Jimi Hendrix Experience would claim their first hit single before the year was out. The guitarist would go on to re-define the rock genre, expanding what was possible to achieve in terms of musicianship and songwriting.
However it was all to end tragically when Jimi Hendrix died in London in September 1970 – just four years after first arriving in the city.
Since his death, there have been many theories and rumours regarding his finals months. Shady ties with Mafia owned nightclubs have been put forward, with Hendrix himself being drawn to violent black Activists.
However recent claims over the guitarist’s death have left fans shocked. Former roadie James ‘Tappy’ Wright claims in his new book ‘Rock Roadie’ that Jimi Hendrix’s manager Mike Jeffrey admitted to murdering his charge.
With Jimi Hendrix becoming increasingly independent, Wright claims that his manager had him killed in order to claim the vast life insurance bonds he had taken on out on the singer. Continuing, the former roadie claims that Jeffrey hired a gang to force red wine and sleeping tablets down the guitarist’s mouth.
Now the doctor who attended Jimi Hendrix on the night he died has backed up the claims, admitting that there is a possibility the musician was the victim of foul play.
In a new interview the physician admitted that the new theory “sounded plausible because of the volume of wine” found in Hendrix’s lungs and on his body.
“The amount of wine that was over him was just extraordinary. Not only was it saturated right through his hair and shirt but his lungs and stomach were absolutely full of wine. I have never seen so much wine,” The Times reports.
“We had a sucker that you put down into his trachea, the entrance to his lungs and to the whole of the back of his throat. We kept sucking him out and it kept surging and surging. He had already vomited up masses of red wine and I would have thought there was half a bottle of wine in his hair.”
“He had really drowned in a massive amount of red wine.”
