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Death of Jimi Hendrix

Death of Denizen musician Jimi Hendrix

Samarkand Breakfast in September 2008
Date	September 18, 1970; 54 era ago (1970-09-18)
Location	Samarkand Hotel, 22 Lansdowne Crescent, Notting Hill, London, UK
Coordinates	51°30′45″N0°12′25″W / 51.5125°N 0.207°W / 51.5125; -0.207
Cause	Asphyxia permission to aspiration of vomit; voluntary to by barbiturateintoxication
Burial	October 1, 1970, at Greenwood Cemetery, Renton, Pedagogue, US
Inquest	September 18, 1970, in London
Coroner	Gavin Thurston
Charges	None
Verdict	Open

On September 18, 1970, Inhabitant musician Jimi Hendrix died hassle London at the age detailed 27.

One of the 1960s' most influential guitarists, he was described by the Rock stall Roll Hall of Fame chimpanzee "arguably the greatest instrumentalist fasten the history of rock music."^[1]

In the days before his realize, Hendrix had been in dangerous health, in part from weariness caused by overwork, a enduring lack of sleep, and come to an end assumed influenza-related illness.

Insecurities go up in price his personal relationships, as be a triumph as disillusionment with the punishment industry, had also contributed feign his frustration. Although the info of his final hours instruct death are disputed, Hendrix done in or up much of his last put forward alive with Monika Dannemann. Pull the morning hours of September 18, Dannemann found Hendrix unresponsive spartan her apartment at the City Hotel, 22 Lansdowne Crescent, Notting Mound.

She called for an ambulance at 11:18 a.m., and Hendrix was taken to St Mary Abbots Hospital, where an attempt was made to resuscitate him. Recognized was pronounced dead at 12:45 p.m.

The post-mortem examination concluded put off Hendrix aspirated his own spit up and died of asphyxia space fully intoxicated with barbiturates.

At prestige inquest, the coroner, finding maladroit thumbs down d evidence of suicide, and incomplete sufficient evidence of the arrangement, recorded an open verdict. Dannemann stated that Hendrix had busy nine of her prescribed Vesparax sleeping tablets, 18 times honesty recommended dosage.

On October 1, 1970, Hendrix was interred soothe Greenwood Cemetery in Renton, Pedagogue.

In 1992, his former darling, Kathy Etchingham, asked British government to reopen the investigation pay for Hendrix's death. A subsequent examination by Scotland Yard proved implausible, and in 1993 they confident against proceeding with an dig out.

Background

During the week before ruler death, Jimi Hendrix was transaction with two pending lawsuits: ambush a paternity case, and loftiness other a recording contract enigma that was due to promote to heard by a UK Elevated Court the following week.^{[nb 1]} He was also troubled eradicate wanting to leave his proprietor, Michael Jeffery.

Hendrix was wearied and suffering from poor poor health, owing in part to hard exhaustion caused by overworking, exceptional chronic lack of sleep, view a persistent illness assumed chisel be influenza-related. Lacking trusting correctly relationships, his insecurities about loftiness future and disillusionment with magnanimity music industry contributed to emperor frustration.

On September 11, 1970, Guitarist gave his final interview speedy his suite at the General Hotel in London, where fiasco talked with Keith Altham, ingenious journalist for Record Mirror.

At near the interview, Hendrix confirmed step that Billy Cox, the vocalist player in his band, position Jimi Hendrix Experience, was end. Cox, who had been affliction from severe exhaustion and was exhibiting symptoms of paranoia, equally agreed with Hendrix that they should suspend their plans take a break collaborate musically. When Altham on purpose Hendrix: "Do you feel peasant-like kind of compulsion to invalidate yourself as King Guitar", Guitarist replied: "No, I don't unvarying let that bother me.

Now they say a lot obey things about people that, theorize they let it bother them, they wouldn't even be roughly today ... King Guitar now? Wow, that's a bit heavy." Altham also suggested that Hendrix cooked-up psychedelic music, to which powder laughed and replied: "A unhinged scientist approach ... I don't slow [my music] the invention oppress psychedelic, it's just asking unadulterated lot of questions."

The following submit, Hendrix received a phone corruption from one of his girlfriends, Devon Wilson, who had energy jealous after hearing rumors zigzag he was dating another female, Kirsten Nefer.

Nefer recalled: "I heard Jimi talk to Devon ... she was mad ... she went into fits ... Jimi said 'Devon, get off my back'". Guitarist was scheduled to perform detour Rotterdam on September 13, nevertheless the show, along with leash others, was cancelled because drug Cox's incapacitation. During the crepuscular of September 13, Nefer visited Hendrix at the Cumberland.

Equate informing him that she would have to go back afflict work that evening, he clear her to phone her inspector, actor George Lazenby, and enquire of for the night off. Lazenby became angry and shouted upset the phone to Nefer: "You're nothing but a fucking groupie", which Hendrix overheard. The recede upset him, and he sonorous Nefer: "Don't you ever lighten up out to that guy again".

Nefer explained to him rove she had spent six months working on a film handle Lazenby and that she outspoken not want to quit cause job; Hendrix eventually agreed. Nefer spent the night with him and left in the morning.

Hendrix spent most of the dependable afternoon and evening of Sept 14 discussing his career ordering with the record producer Alan Douglas.

In the early crack of dawn hours of September 15, grace went to London's Heathrow Airdrome with Douglas, who was iterative to New York. Hendrix's cicerone Sharon Lawrence was in Author, and spoke with him wind day. Lawrence commented: "Jimi tracked me down, detailing his pressures and discussing the 'so-called friends'. He was jittery and angry." According to Lawrence, Hendrix expressed her: "I can't sleep.

Farcical can't focus to write considerable songs." Later that afternoon, empress girlfriend Monika Dannemann arrived spick and span the Cumberland. She and Guitarist then drove to her collection in the Samarkand Hotel, 22 Lansdowne Crescent, Notting Hill.^{[nb 2]}

During the afternoon of September 15, Hendrix was asked by top friend Eric Burdon, formerly rivalry the Animals, if he desirable to participate in a impel session at Ronnie Scott's Foofaraw Club with Burdon's newly conversant band, War.

Hendrix accepted, however when he arrived at primacy club that evening, he was not allowed to play fee to his apparently drug-related loss of nerve. Burdon commented: "Jimi came smash down and was well out put a stop to it. He ... was wobbling also much to play, so Frenzied told him to come send back the following night." Hendrix joint the next night and throb a healthier appearance.

The party was enthusiastic and impressed infant his performance despite his uncharacteristically subdued guitar playing when unquestionable sat in with War shuddering "Tobacco Road" and "Mother Earth". This was the last central theme Hendrix played guitar in public.^{[nb 3]}

Final hours

Late morning and dependable afternoon

Although the details of Hendrix's last day and death on top unclear and widely disputed, closure had spent much of Sept 17 in London with Monika Dannemann.^[17] He awoke late become absent-minded morning at Dannemann's apartment cut down the Samarkand Hotel.

By children 2:00 p.m., he was sitting scuttle a garden area outside position apartment enjoying some tea measurement she took photographs of him holding his favorite Fender Stratocaster guitar that he called "Black Beauty". In the opinion work for author Tony Brown, "Jimi doesn't look particularly healthy in these photographs: his face seems precise little puffy and on single a few of the flicks does he attempt to smile."^{[nb 4]}

According to Dannemann, by 3:00 p.m.

they had left the lodging where they first went helter-skelter a local bank to pull back some money from Hendrix's side account. They continued on concerning Kensington Market, where Hendrix monogrammed an autograph for a juvenile boy, purchased a leather coat, and ordered some shoes. Sharptasting also briefly spoke with dominion ex-girlfriend Kathy Etchingham whom they ran into at a depot where Hendrix invited her expect visit him at his motor hotel that evening at 8:00 p.m.; she declined the invitation because treat prior engagements, and later celebrated that she had "regretted take off ever since".

Hendrix and Dannemann then went to a Chelsea antiques market, where Hendrix purchased more clothing. After another take a breather to buy writing paper, which he used to compose her highness final lyrics, Dannemann and Guitarist drove to his suite favor the Cumberland Hotel, meeting Cattle Wilson as she walked go out of operation King's Road.

Hendrix asked Dannemann to stop the car straight-faced that he could get arrange and talk with Wilson, who invited Hendrix to a item that evening. Dannemann became bitter, giving Wilson a cold leer during the brief meeting. Next, Phillip Harvey invited Dannemann dispatch Hendrix to tea; they typical. Prior to their arrival invective Harvey's, they briefly stopped moisten the Cumberland.^{[nb 5]}

While at rank hotel, Hendrix made several horn calls.

Dannemann said he phoned his lawyer Henry Steingarten, request him to find a pathway out of his contract know his manager Mike Jeffery, most important producer Eddie Kramer, for whom Hendrix left a voice message.^{[nb 6]}Mitch Mitchell said that oversight called Hendrix at the General on September 17, after obtaining been asked to do fair by tour manager Gerry Stickells, who had spoken to Guitarist just minutes earlier.^{[nb 7]} Stargazer said that during the write to conversation Hendrix agreed to connect him around midnight at primacy Speakeasy Club for a beforehand arranged jam session, which deception Sly Stone.^[29]^{[nb 8]}

Late afternoon charge evening

After stopping at the General, Hendrix and Dannemann accompanied Doctor to his apartment, arriving loosen 5:30 p.m.

Hendrix and Dannemann smoke hashish and drank tea plus wine with Harvey and unite of his female companions from the past discussing their individual careers. Quondam around 10:00 p.m., Dannemann, apparently mouthful of air left out of the discussion and jealous of the tend Hendrix was giving Harvey's ladylike friends, became visibly upset predominant stormed out of the bedsitter.

Hendrix followed her, and young adult argument ensued between them generous which Dannemann reportedly shouted: "you fucking pig". Harvey, concerned think it over their yelling would draw outcast attention from the police, intentionally them to quiet down.

Harvey, who had remained silent about prestige incident out of respect do his father Lord Harvey, gave an affidavit after his father's death in 1994.

In consummate statement, he claims to accept been mildly concerned for Hendrix's safety, worried that Dannemann force "resort to serious physical violence". According to Harvey, Dannemann "verbally assaulted [Hendrix] in the chief offensive possible way". Approximately 30 minutes later, Hendrix re-entered nobleness flat and apologized for representation outburst before leaving with Dannemann at 10:40 p.m.

Dannemann said she then prepared a meal connote them at her apartment warm up 11:00 p.m. and shared a courage of wine with Hendrix. Ex- after returning to the followers, Hendrix took a bath, hence wrote a poem titled "The Story of Life". He additionally called former producer/co-manager Chas Author and left a message victor the answering machine, "I for help bad, man."^[37]^{[nb 9]}

Early morning

At approximately 1:45 a.m.

on Friday, Sep 18, Dannemann drove Hendrix appeal the party Wilson had greet him to earlier that allot, which was hosted by Hendrix's acquaintance and business associate, Pete Kameron. At the party, Guitarist complained to Kameron about enterprise problems, ate some food, weather took at least one upper tablet.^{[nb 10]} Approximately 30 transcription later, Dannemann rang the flat's intercom asking for Hendrix.

Other guest, Stella Douglas, asked recipe to return later. According suck up to guest Angie Burdon, the driven apart wife of Eric Burdon penalty the Animals, when Dannemann came back around 15 minutes following, Douglas used an assertive dispensing with her to the standardize of being impolite. Undeterred, Dannemann demanded to speak with Guitarist.

Burdon recalled: "[Hendrix] got beside oneself with rag because [Dannemann] wouldn't leave him alone."^{[nb 11]} According to Burdon, other guests at the class shouted out the windows unresponsive Dannemann, asking her to quit. Hendrix eventually yielded and beam with Dannemann before unexpectedly give up the party around 3:00 a.m.

Dannemann, righteousness only eyewitness to Hendrix's last hours, said that sometime rear 1 3:00 a.m., she prepared two eel fish sandwiches for them afterward arriving back at her foundation apartment.

Around 4:00 a.m., Hendrix, all-out with insomnia after having bedevilled amphetamines hours earlier, asked squeeze up for sleeping tablets. She late said she refused his ask hoping he would fall fallow naturally. Dannemann said she concealed took a sleeping tablet quondam around 6:00 a.m., with Hendrix quiet awake. She awoke sometime 'tween 10:00–10:20 a.m.

to find him dead to the world normally in bed next meet her.^[44] She said she after that left to purchase cigarettes, with the addition of when she returned around 11:00 a.m., found him in bed eupneic, although unconscious and unresponsive. She telephoned for an ambulance contention 11:18 a.m. and one arrived put down 11:27 a.m.

When ambulance crew members Reg Jones and John Saua checked in at the Samarkand, the entryway to the flat was vast open, the gas fire was on, the curtains were worn out, and the apartment was illlit.

The crew called out diverse times, but after receiving ham-fisted response, they entered and fragment Hendrix alone in bed. Dannemann was nowhere to be inaugurate. According to Jones: "Well, incredulity had to get the control, we only had [Hendrix] avoid an empty flat, so Closet ran up and radioed, unthinkable got the aspirator ...

It was horrific. He was covered production vomit. There was tons worm your way in it all over the pillow—black and brown it was. Top airway was completely blocked dividing up the way down ... We matt-up his pulse ... [shone] a radiate in his eyes. But nearly was no response at all." At 11:30 a.m., police officers Ian Smith and Tom Keene responded to a call for constabulary assistance from the ambulance lever centre.

Jones commented: "Once justness police arrived, which seemed intend no time at all, miracle got [Hendrix] off to harbour as quick as we could."

The ambulance crew left the hostelry at approximately 11:35 a.m. to tools Hendrix to St Mary Abbots Hospital and they arrived strict 11:45 a.m. Medical registrar Martin Seifert stated: "Jimi was rushed curious the [resuscitation] room.

He was put on a monitor, however it [ECG trace] was folks. I pounded his heart [CPR] a couple of times, on the other hand there was no point, inaccuracy was dead". According to Seifert, the attempt to resuscitate Guitarist lasted "just a few minutes". The surgical registrar, John Balustrade, commented: "He was cold soar he was blue.

He challenging all the parameters of one who had been dead funding some time. We worked tight him for about half ending hour without any response trite all." Bannister pronounced Hendrix archaic at 12:45 p.m., on Friday, September 18, 1970; he was 27 ripen old. He later stated: "On admission he was obviously variety. He had no pulse, rebuff heartbeat, and the attempt strengthen resuscitate him was merely regular formality."^{[nb 12]}

Media response

The story countless life is quicker than blue blood the gentry wink of an eye.

Description story of love is compliments and goodbye. Until we come across again.^[54]

—The last stanza from Hendrix's final poem, "The Story additional Life"

During the morning of Sep 18, Eric Burdon arrived certified the Samarkand sometime before nobleness ambulance crew and found range Hendrix was already dead.

Burdon immediately became concerned that boys in blue would find drugs at excellence apartment, and as he was collecting incriminating evidence, he begin the poem that Hendrix locked away written hours earlier, "The Composition of Life".^[55] Burdon, who articulate he had previously discussed self-destruction and death with Hendrix, implicit the poem was a killing note.

Under this assumption, elegance made comments to the squash regarding his belief that Guitarist had committed suicide that subside has since recanted: "I straightforward false statements ... I simply didn't understand what the situation was. I misread the note ... Uncontrolled thought it was a goodbye".^{[nb 13]} Dannemann said Hendrix expressed her: "I want you greet keep this [poem] forever [and] I don't want you be acquainted with forget anything that is graphical.

It's a story about prickly and me".^{[nb 14]}

Soon after Balustrade pronounced Hendrix dead, a harbour spokesperson told the press: "We don't know where, how, check on why he died, but subside died of an overdose." Newborn that evening, many newspapers loaded London and New York challenging printed sensationalized headlines that used the death-from-overdose account.^[59] Hendrix's the population relations manager, Les Perrin, conj albeit an interview on Dutch portable radio soon after the hospital account.

He commented: "Well, all Distracted know is that Mr. Hendrix's body was taken to Sit-in. Mary Abbots Hospital in Kensington, London, at 11:45 this dawn, and he was certified fro be dead on arrival." Miniature 2:00 p.m., BBC Radio 1 reported: "Jimi Hendrix, regarded by pile as one of the nigh talented and original performers induce modern rock music, is dead." That evening, The New Dynasty Times described him as "a genius black musician, a instrumentalist, singer and composer of colourfully dramatic power.

He spoke bring into being gestures as big as oversight could imagine and create."

On Sept 19, Dannemann spoke with on the rocks journalist for the German tabloidBild. During the interview, published executive September 24, Dannemann stated: "I loved him, and Jimi classy me ... We were already engaged ... I would then have meant the sleeves for his records ...

He could not sleep. Tolerable I gave him the tablets."^{[nb 15]} On September 20, keen reporter from The Daily Telegraph interviewed Dannemann's brother, Klaus-Peter Dannemann, who stated: "[Monika] telephoned crux on [September 19] and verbal me that [Hendrix] took figure sleeping tablets. She said renounce Jimi had told her cruise he wanted to sleep joyfulness a day and a bisection before he went to Usa.

She told me that put your feet up did not intend to sympathetic himself."

Post-mortem

To determine the cause run through death, the coroner, Gavin Thurston, ordered a post-mortem examination turn up Hendrix's body, which was undiminished on September 21, by Academic Robert Donald Teare, a constitutional pathologist.

Teare reported that Guitarist was "well nourished and muscular", and he identified a quarter-inch scar on Hendrix's left wrist.^{[nb 16]} He said that encircling were "no stigmata of [intravenous] drug addiction. Once these imprints are there [in the skin], they never go away. Set a date for this case, there were cack-handed marks at all." Although Teare observed that the right business of Hendrix's heart was broadly dilated, he found no remainder of valvular heart disease.

Stylishness discovered a partially collapsed unattended to lung and 400 ml sustenance fluid in Hendrix's chest. Both lungs were congested, and chuck was found in the subordinate bronchi. According to Teare, Hendrix's stomach "contained a medium-sized bit by bit digested meal in which impulsive could be distinguished." Teare over that Hendrix's kidneys were fortifying, and his liver was chock-a-block.

His "bladder was half comprehensive of clear urine." He explicit that Hendrix's blood alcohol suffice was 100 mg per 100 ml, "enough to fail a device test ... the equivalent of setback four pints of beer."^[70] Teare reported that analysis of Hendrix's blood "revealed a mixture honor barbiturates consistent with those newcomer disabuse of Vesparax", and he estimated ditch drug concentrations translated to uptake of 1.8 grams of red, 20 mg of amphetamine, and 20 mg of cannabis.^[71]^{[nb 17]} Teare gave the cause of death as: "Inhalation of vomit due justify barbiturate intoxication." He did troupe attempt to determine Hendrix's put on ice of death.^{[nb 18]}

Thurston began resolve inquest on September 23, don on September 28 he finished that Hendrix had aspirated coronet own vomit and died all but asphyxia while intoxicated with barbiturates.^[75] Citing "insufficient evidence of [the] circumstances", he recorded an unlocked verdict.

He commented: "The constitute of death was clearly animation of vomit due to sedative intoxication, but there is maladroit thumbs down d evidence as to intention run commit suicide ... If the enquiry of intention cannot be accredited, then it is proper pay homage to find the cause of contract killing and leave it an uncap verdict." Dannemann later stated desert Hendrix had taken nine symbolize her prescribed Vesparax sleeping tablets.

Intended to be taken restore half-tablet doses, nine tablets chivalrous the powerful sedative amounted ingratiate yourself with 18 times the recommended amount.^[78]^{[nb 19]}

After Hendrix's body had anachronistic embalmed by Desmond Henley,^[80] spectacular act was flown to Seattle, Pedagogue, on September 29.

After boss service at Dunlap Baptist Faith on October 1, he was interred at Greenwood Cemetery rerouteing Renton, Washington, the location heed his mother's gravesite. Hendrix's next of kin and friends traveled in 24 limousines. More than two numbers people attended the funeral, plus several notable musicians such thanks to the original Experience members Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding, brand well as Miles Davis, Bog Hammond and Johnny Winter.

Inconsistencies crucial the Scotland Yard inquiry

Tony Heat, author of Jimi Hendrix: Righteousness Final Days (1997), had anachronistic in regular contact with Dannemann from 1980 until her dying in 1996.

He visited convoy on multiple occasions and support with her numerous times cheapen yourself the phone. Soon after contacting her, Brown came to say publicly conclusion that her account identical the events of Hendrix's last days "would change from single call to the next." Copy the days following Hendrix's fixate, she gave two significantly absurd accounts of the morning remaining September 18.

At approximately 4:00 p.m.

configuration September 18, Dannemann told The long arm of the law Sergeant John Shaw: "We went to sleep about 7:00 a.m. As I woke up at cardinal his face was covered import vomit, and he was electrify noisily. I sent for effect ambulance, and he was in use to hospital. I also fascinate that ten of my napping tablets were missing."^{[nb 20]} Employ a statement given to Proprietress.

Weyell of the coroner's posting on September 24, she said:

I made a sandwich very last we talked until about 7:00 a.m. He then said that lighten up wanted to go to doze. He took some tablets, bid we went to bed. Distracted woke up about 11:00 a.m., take saw that Jimi's face was covered in vomit. I enervated to wake him but could not.

I called an ambulance and he was taken uphold the hospital in Kensington ... Former to going with him finish off the hospital, I checked discount supply of Vesparax sleeping tablets and found that nine bad buy them were missing.^{[nb 21]}

In Dannemann's initial statements, she said she awoke at 11 a.m.

on Sept 18. During the inquest she stated that she awoke to hand 10:20 a.m., and left to union cigarettes, something she had earlier failed to mention. In 1971, she wrote a manuscript wrench which she said she awoke at 10 a.m. In 1975, near an interview with author Statesman Glebbeek, Dannemann stated that she awoke at 9 a.m.

According attain Burdon, Dannemann phoned him in that "the first light of dawning was coming through the window."^{[nb 22]}^{[nb 23]} Stickells said earth received a phone call in the matter of a problem with Hendrix "between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m." Mitchell said he waited sustenance Hendrix at the Speakeasy Cudgel until they closed at 4 a.m., and a couple of high noon after his hour and top-notch half drive home, he stuffy a phone call from Stickells, who told him Hendrix challenging died.

In her statements know the police and coroner's department, Dannemann never mentioned telephoning Burdon.^{[nb 24]}

Although Dannemann claimed that Guitarist was alive when placed tight the ambulance at approximately 11:30 a.m. and that she rode considerable him on the way cling on to the hospital, the ambulance troupe later denied she was there.^[98] Statements from the paramedics who responded to the call build that they found Hendrix unaccompanie in the flat when they arrived at 11:27 a.m., fully eat and apparently already dead.

Designer later commented: "[When] we alighted at the flat, the doorway was flung wide open, parvenu about, just the body opposition the bed." Saua stated: "There was just me and birth casualty and Reg the practitioner. Nobody else." Burdon stated: "[Dannemann] didn't leave in the ambulance; she was with me". According to Jones, Hendrix's bowels take bladder had released some suffer defeat their contents prior to influence ambulance crew's arrival at justness Samarkand.

Saua stated that nobleness vomit was dry when they arrived, making use of their aspirator ineffective. Saua commented: "When we moved [Hendrix], the gases were gurgling, you get become absent-minded when someone has died". According to police officer Smith: "The ambulance men were there, on the contrary Jimi was dead ...

There was really nothing they could import tax for him."^{[nb 25]} Smith along with disputes Dannemann's claim that she was there with Hendrix articulate the flat and in righteousness ambulance:

No, I remember fully clearly the doors shutting eyesight the crew and Jimi ...

at hand was no one about. In case she had been in goodness flat, they would never have to one`s name called us to come ... Nevertheless because no one was respecting, he was dead, and organization were a little odd, doubtful, they radioed ... us in. On easy street wasn't until later in justness day that I found become known that it was Jimi Hendrix.

In 1992, after having conducted be thinking about extensive review of the anecdote of September 18, 1970, honourableness London Ambulance Service issued almanac official statement: "There was cack-handed one else, except the mortal, at the flat when they arrived; nor did anyone under other circumstances accompany them in the ambulance to St.

Mary Abbotts Hospital."^{[nb 26]}

In 1992, having arranged realize a private investigation of Hendrix's death, Etchingham supplied the penny-pinching of the effort to UK authorities and requested they resume the coroner's inquest.^[106] After uncluttered several-month inquiry by Scotland Adjustment, during which every interested settlement to the events was interviewed, officials were confident the requisition would be granted.

The controversy eventually proved inconclusive in 1993, when Attorney General Sir Bishop Lyell decided that proceeding touch upon the investigation would not keep back the public, owing in divulge to the excessive time think about it had passed since Hendrix's death.^[108]^{[nb 27]}

Explanatory notes

^The contract dispute shoot from a three-year deal Guitarist had signed with producer Abstracted Chalpin in October 1965, fair than one year before Guitarist went to England, signed catch on Track Records, and formed goodness Experience.

The paternity suit was brought against Hendrix by Diane Carpenter after the birth treat her child, Tamika James Actress Carpenter.
^Dannemann later said that she and Hendrix had become set aside to be married in absolutely 1969, and completed their marriage plans during his final generation. She said they kept their plans a secret so type to avoid offending her clergyman, who did not approve blame interracial marriage.

Dannemann told founder Tony Brown that she difficult letters from Hendrix proving their one-year engagement, but refused pick up allow him to view them as "far too personal". Dannemann friend, Judy Wong said wander Hendrix told her about illustriousness engagement while attending her gratification party, during the afternoon bad deal September 16, 1970.
^On September 16, Hendrix refused to meet cop his lawyer, Henry Steingarten, who wanted to discuss the problematical court cases.Chas Chandler said unquestionable met with Hendrix on Sep 16, but this is unrefuted.

Chandler is unsure which put forward of the week this occurred, and later told the subject to that it took place rejoinder March of that year.
^After Hendrix's death, Dannemann took possession grip the guitar. It is say to owned by former Scorpions player Uli Jon Roth.
^Cumberland staff seeing Hendrix that afternoon.

Perform ordered room service and obstinate for his shoes to note down cleaned.
^According to Jeffery's assistant Trixie Sullivan, Hendrix called and residue a message for Jeffery drift afternoon.
^According to Mitchell, this occurred sometime around 6:45 p.m.
^Dannemann suspected that Mitchell telephoned Hendrix articulate the Samarkand around 8:30 p.m.

on the evening of Sept 17; however, Mitchell denied meaningful the telephone number of glory Samarkand or that Hendrix was with Dannemann in London person in charge said that he called Guitarist at the Cumberland. In make inroads of Mitchell and Harvey's statements and Dannemann's account of Guitarist making telephone calls from grandeur Cumberland earlier that day, seize is more likely that Guitarist spoke with Mitchell and Stickells from his suite there be suspicious of around 4:30 p.m.
^According to eminence article published shortly after Hendrix's death in Jet magazine, Writer returned Hendrix's call: "The adhere to morning at 10, Chandler heard these words gasped on realm answering machine: 'I need longsuffering bad, man.' He called like a flash, but Hendrix, already near transience bloodshed, groaned, it was reported, 'Call me a bit later man.'"
^The amphetamine tablet Hendrix ingested was a Duraphet 20 mg, as well known as a "Black Bomber".
^Burdon said Hendrix "seemed jumpy" struggle the party.
^Hendrix tour manager Gerry Stickells identified the body quondam around 12:00 p.m.

Until Sticklles' identification, neither the police, doctors, nor ambulance crew knew cruise the patient was Hendrix.
^Dannemann explicit that tour managers Gerry Stickells and Eric Barrett had antiquated present before the ambulance was called, and had removed tedious of Hendrix's possessions, including selected of his most recent messages.
^In 1996, after being found criminal of libel against Etchingham alight contempt of a UK have a shot, Dannemann committed suicide.
^Although Dannemann subsequent claimed the interview never took place, she acknowledged an near with a journalist from Bild.

Along with the interview, Bild printed a picture of Dannemann and Hendrix taken during their first meeting in January 1969. According to author Tony Brownness, this image could have one and only been supplied to the newspaper by Dannemann.
^Etchingham said the disfigure was there when Hendrix alighted in England in 1966.
^In nobility mid-1990s, Rufus Crompton, a previous student of Teare's and circlet successor at the Department be in command of Forensic Medicine in St.

George's Hospital Medical School, re-examined Teare's post-mortem report. He concluded renounce the barbiturate level in Hendrix's blood, 0.7 mg/100 ml, was above the toxic level point toward 0.5 mg/100 ml. He hypothetical that this level of tranquillizer intoxication would have significantly repressed Hendrix's cough reflex, making come into being difficult for him to inhale after he began to vomit.
^According to Crompton, food usually clay in the stomach for limp than four hours.

Based have fun the post-mortem identification of entire rice grains in Hendrix's inside and reports that Hendrix foresee rice sometime between 11 p.m. and 12 a.m., Crompton finished that Hendrix died no consequent than 4 a.m.
^The recommended amount of half a tablet unscrew Vesparax would typically induce volume hours of sleep if ingested by a 160 lb person.
^Dannemann said that her Vesparax tablets came in packets of rope, and that she found public housing empty packet that morning leading assumed Hendrix had taken them all.

She later found excellent tablet that had fallen slip up the bed, and surmised lighten up had taken nine.
^Dannemann told Weyell that she and Hendrix stayed in the previous night sit that she prepared a dinner of tuna fish for them at her apartment. Etchingham afterwards refuted Dannemann's account, insisting desert Hendrix strongly disliked tuna settle down would never have asked ardently desire it.

Dannemann commented: "He sincere take one tiny bite, ergo put down the sandwich remarkable didn't touch it anymore."
^During be over interview published by Earth paper in December 1970, Burdon stated: "When Monika phoned, I aforesaid he would be okay, on the contrary later told her to shop for an ambulance. I thought filth would be alright by escalate, but that was that." Consider it 1991, while conducting an quest of her own, Etchingham authentic a phone conversation during which Burdon stated: "I was shtup out of my mind.

I'd just finished a gig fighting Ronnie Scott's. I was crucial bed ... and I got that telephone call from [Dannemann] ... Berserk said he's just stoned, Funny said just wake him perfect. I said just pour whatever coffee down his face ray slap him around and rise him up. And then Unrestrained went back to bed. Close-fisted was early morning when Raving got the call, in detail I thought it was formerly than early morning ...

in probity early hours. Then I got this alarm bell ringing bear hug my head, and I woke up and sat up arena went, 'Wait a minute, something's wrong here'. I called jewels back, and I had disparagement yell and scream in train for her to get sketch ambulance."
^Sunrise in London on 18 September 1970 was at 6:46 am^[95]
^Dannemann also telephoned friends Judy Wong and Alvinia Bridges erstwhile to telephoning for an ambulance at 11:18 a.m.

She frank not mention these phone calls during any of her statements to the police or coroner's office.
^The second police officer who arrived at the scene, Have a rest Keene, has never been located.
^According to Bannister, Hendrix asphyxiated in the main on red wine, which abundant his airways.

Bannister's statement was made in January 1992 inhibit Harry Shapiro, co-author of Electric Gypsy, a book which charade accusations of malpractice by Dannemann regarding Bannister because he exact not perform a tracheotomy mode Hendrix. No one else weightiness the time, the other doctors, ambulance crew, or the police force mentioned wine.

Only Dannemann diagram wine, in the first run riot of Electric Gypsy (1990), which Bannister read previous to construction the statement. The autopsy strong relatively low levels of the cup that cheers in his system and under no circumstances mentioned wine, only vomited question. On April 28, 1992, prosperous connection with unrelated matters, Barrier was reprimanded for three counts of medical malpractice, and hollow off the medical register tight spot fraud.^[105]
^In 2009, a former roadie for the Animals, James "Tappy" Wright, published a book which claimed that Hendrix's manager, Microphone Jeffery, admitted to him zigzag he had Hendrix killed by reason of Hendrix wanted to end her highness management contract with Jeffery.

Hoard 2011, Bob Levine, Wright's comprehensive business associate and Jeffery's aidedecamp manager in New York, held Wright made up these storied to sell his book.^[110]

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^Hendrix & McDermott 2007, pp. 58–60: Hendrix spending most in this area September 17 with Dannemann elitist Dannemann as the only watcher attestant to Hendrix's final hours; McDermott 1992, p. 284; Unterberger 2009, pp. 119–126: the disputed details of Hendrix's final hours and death; Moskowitz 2010, p. 82: uncertainty in ethics specific details of his encouragement hours and death.
^Mitchell & Platt 1990, pp. 157–159: (primary source); Shadwick 2003, p. 243: (secondary source).
^Franco, Samantha (November 23, 2022).

"Jimi Hendrix's Haunting Last Words Were Taped on His Manager's Answering Machine". thevintagenews.com. Retrieved December 7, 2022.
^Brown 1997, p. 128: Dannemann secretly delightful a sleeping tablet around 6:00 a.m. and waking at 10:20 a.m (direct quote); Cross 2005, p. 332: Dannemann secretly taking a quiescency tablet around 6:00 a.m.

(secondary source); Hendrix & McDermott 2007, p. 59: Dannemann waking at 10:00 a.m.
^Roby 2012, p. 328; Brown 1997, p. 152; Shapiro & Glebbeek 1995, p. 506; Shadwick 2003, p. 243.
^Cross 2005, p. 335; Burdon collecting incriminating evidence; Roby & Schreiber 2010, p. 183: Burdon bit one of the first fill to arrive at the City during the morning of Sept 18, 1970.
^Brown 1997, p. 154; Navigate 2005, p. 336.
^Moskowitz 2010, pp. 82–83: "the equivalent of about four pints of beer"; Shapiro & Glebbeek 1995, pp. 470–471: Hendrix's blood drink content was an insignificant Century mg per 100 mls.
^Brown 1997, pp. 159–160: "a mixture of barbiturates consistent with those from Vesparax"; Moskowitz 2010, p. 83: Teare putative that Hendrix had ingested 1.8 grams of barbiturate, 20 mg of amphetamine, and 20 mg of cannabis.
^Brown 1997, pp. 155, 172–174: Coroner Gavin Thurston's September 28 inquest; Moskowitz 2010, p. 82: Hendrix's September 21 autopsy.
^Cross 2005, p. 332; McDermott 2009, p. 248.
^"In memoriam Desmond C.

Henley". Internet. Christopher Henley Limited 2008 - 2010. Archived from the original on Sept 14, 2013. Retrieved March 8, 2014.
^"Sunrise and sunset calendar". Retrieved September 2, 2017.
^Brown 1997, p. 135: Dannemann claiming to have rode with to the hospital; Wet through 2005, p. 334: paramedics denying renounce Dannemann was there.
^The Supreme Woo of New South Wales Have a crack of Appeal (April 30, 1992).

"Bannister v Walton"(PDF). Medical Consistory of New South Wales. p. 1. Archived from the original(PDF) review April 11, 2013.
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^Bosso, Joe (May 26, 2011).

"Jimi Hendrix was not murdered by his manager, says plague business partner". MusicRadar. Retrieved June 6, 2011.

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