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...high-speed flowering of interest, melancholy and remorse is common at the sudden early passing of a superstar - James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Jimi Hendrix, Princess Diana - whose life is marked by achievement and controversy. Jackson's death and commercial resurrection are eerily like those of Elvis Presley, dead at 42. One Hollywood cynic, learning that Presley had just died, commented, "Good career move." Cutting but prophetic: Elvis sold far more records after his death than before. Presley's daughter Lisa Marie, Jackson's wife for 20 months in the mid-'90s, recalled a few days ago on her MySpace page...
...humor to restore the tempo. And “Watchmen” certainly laughs at itself at times, from its over-the-top sex scene to some comical music choices, such as “Ride of the Valkyries” as Dr. Manhattan wins in Vietnam. Inclusion of Jimi Hendrix’s rendition of “All Along the Watchtower” and the overused Simon and Garfunkel hit “The Sounds of Silence” feels heavy-handed and forced, but Bob Dylan’s “The Times They...
...last surviving member of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, drummer Mitch Mitchell, who died on Nov. 12 at 61, carried on as keeper of Hendrix's legacy long after the guitarist's death in 1970. Indeed, he had just completed a 19-city U.S. tour--Experience Hendrix--with blues star Buddy Guy and Aerosmith guitarist Brad Whitford when he was found dead in a hotel room in Oregon...
Born in Ealing in west London and self-taught on the drums, Mitchell was 18 when he met Hendrix and bass player Noel Redding (who died in 2003). In 1967, the three put out their first album, Are You Experienced? Driven by Jimi's incendiary guitar-playing and a heady mix of blues and psychedelic rock 'n' roll, the band soon skyrocketed to fame. But turmoil brought on by unending touring and drug binges unraveled the trio after just three years...
Mitchell was leery of being labeled a rock star. While he didn't resent it, he wanted audiences to focus on the group. Still, he accepted his place in music history. Being a part of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, as he said in 1968, had "given me freedom...