Jimi Hendrix Latest Celebrity News & Gossip

Beatles manager Brian Epstein, Midas Man, has shut down mid-shoot.The forthcoming film has hit a snag as director Jonas Akerlund is “taking a break” from the shoot and could be “unlikely to return”, according to Deadline.Midas Man will tell the story of Epstein, the Liverpudlian record shop manager who signed the biggest band of all time.

EXCLUSIVE: Robert Schwartzman’s Los Angeles-based sales and distribution outfit Utopia has closed deals on a pair of documentaries.

Violinist Nigel Kennedy has pulled out of a Classic FM concert at the Royal Albert Hall, taking place this week, after the station asked him not to perform a classical arrangement of Jimi Hendrix’s ‘Little Wing’. This amounts to “musical segregation”, he has declared, and made it “impossible” for him to play the show.Speaking to The Guardian, Kennedy said: “This is musical segregation.

took a break from PDA with their girlfriends at the 2021 MTV VMAs to jam on stage at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, closing out the show.The duo rocked out to 31-year-old MGK’s song “Papercuts” after being introduced by their girlfriends, Kourtney Kardashian and Megan Fox, who called them “our future baby daddies.”Barker, 45, drummed shirtless while MGK wore what looked like a head-to-toe Hot Topic look and smashed his pink guitar a la Jimi Hendrix.The unlikely pair also recently got matching

Joni Mitchell is set to release the recordings of two sets at a Canadian coffee shop that were recorded by Jimi Hendrix.

Chris Willman Music WriterIt’s not a Joni Mitchell/Jimi Hendrix collaboration, per se, but the next best thing, or at least the next oddest thing: A recording of a 1968 Mitchell concert that the legendary guitarist captured from a front row seat has been discovered after decades of being considered lost. And it’s among the unreleased material that’s been rounded up for her next boxed set, “Joni Mitchell Archives Vol.

League of Their Own star has been announced for three-part series The Misinvestigations of Romesh Ranganathan, which will see him take a deeper look into some of the most shocking high-profile deaths. As well as looking at why the likes of Jimi Hendrix and Tupac Shakur died at such a young age, Romesh will also explore their extraordinary achievements and legacies, as well as why their passing continue to fascinate everyone.

Romesh Ranganathan has landed a new BBC series just weeks after winning his second Bafta. In the new show, he will turn his hand to crime-solving by delving into the circumstances of high-profile celebrity deaths.

Cheap Trick, “In Another World” (BMG)In another world, it's still 1979, and Cheap Trick is arguably the biggest American rock band.

In 1968, the year “Hey Jude” hit the charts, Richard Thompson turned down an invitation to Paul McCartney’s birthday party.On other occasions over the years, Thompson shared the stage with Jimi Hendrix.

Nirvana, Amy Winehouse and more for a project raising awareness for the importance of mental health support.Toronto organisation Over The Bridge has created a compilation featuring songs created via artificial intelligence in the style of musicians who died at the age of 27.‘Drowned In The Sun – Lost Tapes Of The 27 Club’ collates those songs, which were largely created by computers, to draw attention to musicians’ struggles with depression and mental health issues, as well as the support on

Alice Cooper has revealed that his first experience using drugs was alongside Jimi Hendrix.Speaking in a recent interview, the legendary rocker was asked to describe the first drug experience he ever had.“Weed was the first drug, and it was [with] Jimi Hendrix,” he told Ralph Sutton and Big Jay Oakerson on The SDR Show. “I’m sitting there after the show.

Saxon have shared a roaring cover of The Beatles‘ ‘Paperback Writer’ – listen to it below.The British heavy metal legends are gearing up to release a covers album called ‘Inspirations’, due out on March 19 via Silver Lining Music.Recorded at Brockfield Hall, near York, the album will hear Saxon cover songs by Jimi Hendrix, Motörhead, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Thin Lizzy, AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Toto and more.Speaking on the band’s decision to cover ‘Paperback Writer’, frontman Biff Byford

Mick Jagger-narrated video below.Directed by Tom Harper and scored by the Academy Award-winning composer Steven Price, Your Room Will Be Ready pairs footage of the empty Royal Albert Hall – which has been closed since the coronavirus outbreak last March – with more than 40 pieces of archive event footage from 1933 to the present.Your Room Will Be Ready also features Jagger reciting W.H.

King Crimson‘s Robert Fripp‘s lauded lockdown covers series continues today (February 7) with a version of Jimi Hendrix‘s ‘Purple Haze’ – watch it below.The pair launched their virtual video series last year, sharing renditions of songs by Nirvana, David Bowie, Metallica, Guns N’ Roses and more through Willcox’s YouTube channel.In the latest ‘Sunday Lunch’ cover, performed in their house as ever, the pair riff on a popular misheard lyric from the Hendrix classic.In place of the lyric: “Excuse me

Yoko Ono and Experience Hendrix’s – the estate of Jimi Hendrix – Janie Hendrix.The venture also has the backing of Sony Music Entertainment, with Coda Collection set to screen a number of new documentaries, music film premieres and rare concert footage by a host of much-loved artists.“The Coda Collection tells the stories of the most iconic moments in music with fresh perspectives, unique editorial and exclusive video content,” a statement about the channel promises.The Coda Collection will

Jimi Hendrix cover by Eddie Van Halen has been unearthed – listen below.The version of ‘Axis: Bold As Love’ track ‘If 6 Was 9’ has been dug up and remastered by keyboardist David Garfield, and appears on his new EP ‘Guitar Heros OTB, Vol.

Miley Cyrus is glad she has made it to 28 because she feared she’d join the likes of Amy Winehouse and Janis Joplin in music’s most tragic club.Winehouse and Joplin – like Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, and Kurt Cobain – died at 27, and Miley reveals she quit drugs and alcohol earlier this year (2020) to help make sure she didn’t join the 27 Club.More Hollywood deaths“27 to me was a year that I really had to protect myself,” she says.

Miley Cyrus has admitted that she recently sobered up because she feared joining the 27 Club.The likes of Amy Winehouse, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain and Jim Morrison all died tragically at the age of 27.The singer, who recently turned 28 yesterday (November 23), says she quit drugs and alcohol earlier this year as a result.“27 to me was a year that I really had to protect myself,” she told Apple Music’s New Music Daily.

Jimi Hendrix guitars have been recreated by Gibson.Hendrix’s 1969 Flying V and 1967 SG Custom are being made available for fans to buy, with both models looking and sounding like the guitars Hendrix actually played.Both also come with official photos of the late guitar legend and a collection of anecdotes and personal images from the archives of Eddie Kramer, his renowned engineer, producer, and collaborator.Hendrix played the Flying V throughout the Band of Gypsys era and during his legendary

AC/DC‘s Angus Young has recalled the very first time he heard Jimi Hendrix‘s music.Speaking in a new interview, the guitarist discussed some of the influences that helped shaped some of AC/DC’s earlier albums.“The thing is a lot of what goes in those albums, when we were younger, that’s where a lot of it all goes back to, at that point — like when I was an early teenager; 13 or 14,” Young told Tiny TV.

Patti Smith is the latest high-profile guest to appear on the ‘WTF with Marc Maron’ podcast, in support of the paperback release of her 2019 book The Year of the Monkey. As Maron is at pains to mention, the interview was Smith’s first ever Zoom call.

David Crosby has taken to Twitter to apologise for controversial comments made about the late Eddie Van Halen last week.The singer-songwriter caught backlash online when he said that Van Halen “does not move me much” and that he didn’t “care that much” about the guitarist’s music.Crosby also said that Van Halen’s musical skills paled in comparison to those of Jimi Hendrix.“Hendrix changed the world of guitar.

who has died of cancer aged 65, was a leading pioneer of rock guitar playing in the post-Jimi Hendrix era – and gave his name to one of the world’s most energetic and exciting hard rock bands.After Van Halen’s formation in the mid-1970s, he provided the driving force behind the extrovert stage antics of original frontman David Lee Roth – and became famous for popularising the technique of “two-hand tapping”, using both on the fretboard of his instrument.The Dutch-born guitarist was influenced by

per The Washington Post. He was 65.The elder Van Halen was considered one of the greatest guitarists of all time, the Post notes, along with other legendary figures like Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, and Jimmy Page.

Steve Miller has unearthed his tribute to Jimi Hendrix – a rendition of his band’s ‘Peppa Sauce’ recorded live on September 18, 1970, the day the legendary guitarist died.Shared yesterday (September 18) to mark the 50th anniversary of Hendrix’s death, Miller’s tribute was recorded at San Rafael, California’s Pepperland.“The next song is in memory of Jimi Hendrix,” Miller told the crowd before before launching into an epic seven-minute long rendition of ‘Peppa Sauce’ filled with guitar licks

A rare demo made up of love songs written by a 13-year-old Ed Sheeran has sold at auction for £50,000 (€55,000)