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London, England
56 years ago

Jimi Hendrix was found unresponsive in a flat in Notting Hill, London, on the morning of September 18, 1970, and was pronounced dead at St Mary Abbot's Hospital. He was twenty-seven. The inquest recorded an open verdict, and the circumstances have been picked over ever since. What is not disputed is that a career of extraordinary influence, which had begun in earnest only in 1966, was over.

He was born in Seattle in 1942, taught himself guitar as a teenager, served briefly as a paratrooper, and spent years on the American rhythm and blues circuit backing acts including the Isley Brothers and Little Richard. He was a sideman, and a restless one. In 1966 the former Animals bassist Chas Chandler saw him playing in a club in New York, persuaded him to come to London, and formed the Jimi Hendrix Experience around him with Noel Redding on bass and Mitch Mitchell on drums.

London took to him almost immediately. Established British guitarists came to see him play and left rethinking their own work. Three albums followed in rapid succession: Are You Experienced in 1967, Axis: Bold as Love later the same year, and the double album Electric Ladyland in 1968. His American breakthrough came at the Monterey Pop Festival in June 1967, in a set that ended with him setting his guitar alight on stage.

What made him important was not showmanship. Hendrix treated feedback, distortion, and the recording studio as instruments rather than problems. He used the whammy bar, controlled amplifier howl, and stereo panning as compositional elements, and he wrote songs, including Little Wing, The Wind Cries Mary, and Castles Made of Sand, whose delicacy sits oddly beside his reputation for volume. His performance of The Star-Spangled Banner at Woodstock in August 1969, rendered with feedback that evoked bombs and sirens, became one of the defining musical statements of the Vietnam era.

He was also exhausted. He toured relentlessly, dissolved the Experience, formed and dissolved other groups, fought contractual battles, and poured money into building Electric Lady Studios in New York, which opened only weeks before he died. He left behind a large volume of unfinished recordings that have been released, repackaged, and disputed for more than half a century. Rolling Stone and virtually every similar list has ranked him the greatest electric guitarist of all time. The body of work behind that judgement was made in about four years.

Jimi Hendrix died in London on September 18, 1970, at twenty-seven, weeks after opening the studio he had spent a fortune building. He had been a professional headliner for four years. In that time he changed what people expected an electric guitar to sound like, and nobody since has displaced him at the top of the lists.

How much do you know about Jimi Hendrix, his years as a sideman, the formation of the Experience in London, his Woodstock performance, and the studio he built?