Jimmy was a down-at-heel guitarist in New York,relying on his latestlovers to support him while he tried to emulate his hero Bob Dylan. Ablack guy playing white rock music,he wanted to be all things to allpeople.But when Jimmy arrived in England and became Jimi,thecream of swinging London fell under his spell. It wasn't that Jimi couldplay with his teeth,play with his guitar behind his back. It was thathe could really play.Journeying through the purple hazeof idealism and paranoia of the sixties,Jimi Hendrix was the man whomade Eric Clapton consider quitting,to whom Bob Dylan deferred on hisown song'All Along the Watchtower',who forced Miles Davis toreconsider his buttoned-down ways - and whose'Star Spangled Banner'defined Woodstock. And when his star,which had burned sobrightly,was extinguished far too young,his legend lived on in themusic - and the intrigue surrounding his death. Eschewing the traditional rock-biography format,Two Riders Were Approaching isa fittingly psychedelic and kaleidoscopic exploration of the life anddeath of Jimi Hendrix - and a journey into the dark heart of thesixties. While the groupies lined up,the drugs got increasingly heavyand the dream of the sixties burned in the fire and blood of the VietnamWar,the assassination of Martin Luther King and the election ofPresident Richard Nixon. Acclaimed writer Mick Wall,author of When Giants Walked the Earth,has drawn upon his own interviews and extensive research to produce aninimitable,novelistic telling of this tale - the definitive portrait ofthe Guitar God at whose altar other guitar gods worship.Jimi Hendrix's is a story that has been told many times before - but never quite like this.
Publisher: Orion Publishing CoISBN: 9781409160311Number of pages: 320Weight: 280 gDimensions: 196 x 128 x 26 mm
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