On 17 October 1967, Korner interviewed The Jimi Hendrix Experience for the BBC radio showTop Gear.

He was also known as The Originator because of his key role in the transition from the blues to rock, influencing a host of acts, including Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones, The Velvet Underground, The Who, The Yardbirds, Eric Clapton, Elvis Presley, The Beatles, and George Michael, among others.

Mitch Mitchell playing a classic four piece kit in the Jimi Hendrix Experience

Many historic bands and early rock music recordings used this configuration, notable users including Ringo Starr in the Beatles, Mitch Mitchell in the Jimi Hendrix Experience, John Barbata in the Turtles and many others.

However, the band's cover of the Jimi Hendrix classic "' Are You Experienced?

Left-handed players generally choose a left-handed ( mirror ) instrument, although some play in a standard right-handed manner, others play a standard right-handed guitar reversed, and still others ( for example Jimi Hendrix ) play a right-handed guitar strung in reverse.

The first in this list is the American guitarist Jimi Hendrix introduced by Pete Townshend, guitarist for The Who, who was, in his turn, ranked at # 50 of the list.

with the top 5 consisting of Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Keith Richards and Jeff Beck.

Like the Rolling Stones list, Jimi Hendrix was chosen as the greatest guitarist followed by Slash from Guns ' N ' Roses, B. B.

Gigwise. com, an online music magazine, also ranks Jimi Hendrix as the greatest guitarist ever, followed by Jimmy Page, B. B.

Dozens of other cultural and popular icons got their start in the Village's nightclub, theater, and coffeehouse scene during the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s, notably besides Bob Dylan, there were Jimi Hendrix, Barbra Streisand, Peter, Paul, and Mary, Bette Midler, The Lovin ' Spoonful, Simon & Garfunkel, Liza Minnelli, Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Eric Andersen, Joan Baez, The Velvet Underground, The Kingston Trio, Carly Simon, Richie Havens, Maria Muldaur, Tom Paxton, Janis Ian, Phil Ochs, Joni Mitchell, Laura Nyro, and Nina Simone among others.

Mercury was influenced early on by the Indian playback singer Lata Mangeshkar along with western influences such as Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon and The Beatles.

* 1947 – Mitch Mitchell, English drummer ( The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Dirty Mac, and The Riot Squad ) ( d. 2008 )

Hendrix borrowed a Fender Telecaster from Noel Redding to record " Hey Joe " and " Purple Haze ", used a white Gibson SG Custom for his performances on The Dick Cavett Show in the summer of 1969, and the Isle of Wight film shows him playing his second Gibson Flying V. While Jimi had previously owned a Flying V that he had painted with a psychedelic design, the Flying V used at the Isle of Wight was a unique custom left-handed guitar with gold plated hardware, a bound fingerboard and " split-diamond " fret markers that were not found on other 1960s-era Flying Vs.

A detailed gear diagram of Jimi Hendrix 1969 " Woodstock " Guitar Rig is well-documented.

It was popularized by Jimi Hendrix.

Promoting his third album Electric Ladyland, Jimi Hendrix said " the influence the psychedelics have on one is truly amazing, and I only wish more people appreciated this belief and genre ".

* Charles R. Cross, Room Full Of Mirrors: A Biography Of Jimi Hendrix, 2005: ISBN 1-4013-0028-6

* Curtis Knight, Jimi: An Intimate Biography of Jimi Hendrix, Praegar Publishers, New York, 1974.

The book includes A Jimi Hendrix Discography, compiled by John McKellar.

* Ken Matesich, Jimi Hendrix: A Discography, 1982

* David Stubbs, Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child: The Stories Behind Every Song, 2003

* The Jimi Hendrix Foundation

* Jimi Hendrix Memorial Project

They scored another hit with songwriter, Alan O ' Day's " Rock and Roll Heaven ", a paean to several deceased rock singers: Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Otis Redding, Jim Croce and Bobby Darin are among the mentioned ( Croce and Darin died within three months of each other in late 1973, shortly before the song was released ).

* Michael Jeffery ( manager ) ( died 1973 ), music business manager of guitarist Jimi Hendrix and The Animals

Although Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs ( 1970 ) is now acknowledged as his masterpiece, the album's relatively poor critical and commercial reception was overshadowed by the tragic deaths of Eric Clapton's close friends Jimi Hendrix ( who died while the sessions were underway ) and the subsequent death of Allman himself in October 1971.

On 18 June 1970, exactly three months before Jimi Hendrix died, he snuck into one of Hendrix's concerts and hid under the stage to get a closer look.

The lyrics to " We'll Burn the Sky " were initially a poem written by Monika Dannemann, the last girlfriend of Jimi Hendrix, as a tribute to him after he died.

** Jimi Hendrix dies in London of drug related complications.

In October the band also got a chance to jam with Jimi Hendrix, who had recently arrived in London.

Relocated from central London in 1966, the studios played host to many of rock and pop's greatest stars down the decades, from The Beatles, who recorded the original tracks of " All You Need Is Love " in Barnes, to The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, Queen, Eric Clapton, Ella Fitzgerald, Harry Nilsson, The Verve, Massive Attack, Duran Duran, Coldplay, Madonna and Björk.

A typical English Heritage " blue plaque ", here marking the former London residence of guitarist Jimi Hendrix at 23 Brook Street.

The Jimi Hendrix Experience was an English-American psychedelic rock band that formed in London in October 1966.

* March 31 – Kicking off a tour with The Walker Brothers, Cat Stevens and Engelbert Humperdinck at The Astoria London, Jimi Hendrix sets fire to his guitar on stage for the first time.

Rodgers acknowledged the influence of Jimi Hendrix by collaborating with Steve Vai, Hendrix's Band Of Gypsys ( Buddy Miles and Billy Cox ) and the London Metropolitan Orchestra and recorded the track " Bold As Love ", on the Hendrix tribute album In From The Storm.

* Plaques for George Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix stand side by side on 25 and 23 Brook Street, Mayfair, London, W1.

Pink Floyd and Jimi Hendrix also played at the Speakeasy on Margaret Street and Bob Dylan made his London debut at the King & Queen pub on Foley Street.

Jimi Goodwin, Joe Roberts and Whiteley also played together in another band until Joe Roberts signed to London Records.

* Saunders, William Jimi Hendrix London Roaring Forties Press.

He joined Olympic Sound Studios in 1966, in London, where he engineered albums for acts including Traffic, Small Faces, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix, for whom Kramer engineered every album from Are You Experienced to The Cry of Love.

In 1964, the entire Daugherty family took a two-week vacation to London where The Beatles and Jimi Hendrix were at the height of their fame and Carnaby Street was the cutting edge of pop culture and fashion – this was in the heart of the Swinging Sixties.

The Herd appeared at The Savile Theatre, London on Sunday 8th October 1967 supporting The Jimi Hendrix Experience.

He then resettled in London, notably having Jimi Hendrix as a neighbor in the same building.

* Additional vocals on " Grace Under Pressure "-The London Community Gospel Choir, Jimi Goodwin, Alfie, Marcus Garvey, Beckie Garvey, Gina Garvey, Cathy Davey & the crowd at Glastonbury 2002 ( Marcus, Beckie and Gina Garvey are singer Guy Garvey's brother and sisters )

In addition to spawning the bands mentioned above, London, in its capacity as the UK's cultural centre, has served as the base of a number of internationally important acts, including David Bowie, The Beatles and Jimi Hendrix, as well as being instrumental in the birth of dance music.

They made two singles, " Say You Don't Mind "/" Ask The People " ( April 1967, Deram ) and " Too Much In Love "/" Catherine's Wheel " ( January 1968, Deram ); and, in June 1967, they shared a bill with The Jimi Hendrix Experience and Procol Harum at the Saville Theatre in London.

In London they jammed at The Speakeasy with Jimi Hendrix, which eventually led to the recording of a lost 7 " acetate for the UK Polydor label.