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Jimi Hendrix had ... Chandler, Hendrix and rock writer Keith Altham were hanging out before the tour's first show on March 31 at London's Finsbury Park Astoria, when the journalist suggested ...

The first guitar set alight on stage by Jimi Hendrix was sold at auction yesterday for £280,000. The rock legend torched his Fender Stratocaster at North London's Finsbury Park Astoria in March 1967.

Behind every great rock’n’roll moment, there’s an NME journalist pulling the strings. When Jimi Hendrix set fire to his guitar at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 and beckoned forth the ...

The first guitar that was ever set alight by the late Jimi Hendrix was bought ... The guitar was set alight by Hendrix at the Finsbury Park Astoria in 1967 and stored by Hendrix‘s then-press ...

On 31 March 1967, as the flames shot four feet into the air from the strings of Jimi Hendrix’s guitar, it looked, to the stunned crowd at London’s Finsbury Park Astoria, like part psychedelic ...

Jimi Hendrix's former press officer Tony Garland has spoken exclusively to Uncut about the day when the star burnt his first electric guitar. Garland witnessed Hendrix set fire to the instrument ...

Jeff Garner said Hendrix ... Astoria Ballroom, which is facing demolition after being home to a variety of entertainment for more than a century, has lived many lives. It was opened as the Grand ...

Oldham's former Astoria Ballroom, which is facing demolition ... he enjoyed a chat over a couple of drinks with music icon Jimi Hendrix. The Jimi Hendrix Experience arrived in Oldham at the ...