Hendrix opens on 25AUG at Handel House Museum in central London.
Hendrix in Britain commemorates the 40th anniversary of Hendrix’s death on 18SEP70.
The exhibition features exhibits rarely seen or never before displayed in the UK, plus many images, film clips and music tracing his rise to fame, his songwriting craft, his guitar playing and his lasting impact on music and popular culture.
Visitors will be able to see his handwritten lyrics, his orange velvet jacket and Westerner hat, his scrawled travel directions to the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival
and UK concert memorabilia. In 1968, Hendrix moved into the top floor flat of 23 Brook Street in Mayfair next door to No 25, where composer George Frideric Handel
lived and worked for 36 years. He wrote his most popular music there, including Messiah, and died in the house in 1759. It is now the Handel House Museum. The flat where Hendrix lived is now used as the museum’s administrative offices but to mark the anniversary of his death it will be opened to the public for 12 days in September.
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