Jimi Hendrix 27/11/42 – 18/09/70
After spending the evening at a party, drinking red wine, the guitar legend returned to the Notting Hill basement flat of his occasional German girlfriend, Monika Dannemann, took nine Vesperax sleeping pills and went to bed. He was found having asphyxiated on his own vomit and although suggestions of suicide have long been dismissed, Hendrix died amid circumstances that have never been fully explained, in the process cementing his god like legacy.
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