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Jimi Hendrix: Pop music loses top guitarist — superb, often wasted talent

Ray Connolly, The Evening Standard, 18 September 1970

JIMI HENDRIX, who died today, was one of the most superbly talented guitarists that rock music has discovered. But he suffered the fatal flaw of squandering his talents on base theatricals.

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