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Jimi Hendrix’s pink feather boa could fetch up to £15,000 at auction.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThere have been a lot of virtual festivals in the past six months of lockdown, but the one taking place from Sept.

A guitar played by Jimi Hendrix previously valued at $50,000 sold for $180,000 this weekend confirming that – whatever kind of economic meltdown COVID-19 may be causing – there are still plenty of rich people out there who will buy overpriced nonsense on a whim.Not that this isn’t a genuinely historic instrument.

Jimi Hendrix’s Japanese sunburst electric guitar that he used in the early ‘60s has sold for more than £160,000 at auction.The late star used the instrument after he was discharged from the army in 1962 and played it during his time in New York as a musician for the likes of the Isley Brothers.The guitar was estimated to be worth $50,000 (£38k) before the auction, but was bought for a winning bid of $180,000 (£138k).

Kanji Yamanouchi, the Consul General of Japan in New York, rang in July 4th with a Jimi Hendrix-inspired rendition of the “Star-Spangled Banner.”The 62-year-old, bow-tied clad diplomat crushed a version of the American national anthem on an electric guitar in a video posted to the consulate’s official Facebook page this week.“This year marks the 160th anniversary of the arrival of the very first Japanese delegation to the United States and New York City,” he said.

The Beatles‘ celebrated manager Brian Epstein has been announced.Jonas Åkerlund, a multiple Grammy award-winning director, will direct the film that’s set to be shot in Liverpool and released in 2021.Midas Man will tell the story of Epstein, the Liverpudlian record shop manager who signed the biggest band of all time.

Leo Barraclough Senior International CorrespondentMulti-Grammy winning director Jonas Akerlund is to helm “Midas Man,” a movie about The Beatles’ manager and music impresario Brian Epstein, it was confirmed Thursday.Epstein discovered The Beatles – indeed Paul McCartney referred to him as “the fifth Beatle” – and they signed a contract with him in 1961.

Peter White Television EditorMotörhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister, one of the most influential musicians of his generation, is to be given the biopic treatment.Lemmy, which will take a look under the bass strings of the man, who along with Eddie Clarke and Phil Taylor wrote Ace of Spades, will be directed by Greg Olliver, who helmed the 2010 documentary Lemmy.It will follow Kilmister’s life growing up in Stoke on Trent, becoming a roadie for Jimi Hendrix and a member of seminal psychedelic rock

The Pretty Things frontman Phil May has died at the age of 75.

The band, peers of The Rolling Stones, were loved by David Bowie and Jimi Hendrix

Joe Berlinger ("Metallica: Some Kind of Monster"), Spencer Proffer (“Chasing Trane”) and Rolling Stone magazine are behind the documentary about Kramer, who also worked with the Beatles, Stones and KISS.

It may only be rock ’n’ roll, but it was enough to get legendary concert promoter Bill Graham top billing at a new exhibit in his old Upper West Side ’hood.

Five decades ago, John Storyk’s life “changed on a dime” when he met Jimi Hendrix. The then-22-year-old musician-carpenter had just completed his first design project for New York’s Cerebrum nightclub.

Earlier this month, Sony Music Entertainment's The Thread Shop merchandise agency inked a deal to produce a merch line for The Beatles. Now, the company has signed a similar deal for another rock legend: Jimi Hendrix.The new deal with Authentic Hendrix LLC and Experience Hendrix LLC -- the Hendrix family-run companies that oversee Jimi's legacy -- includes the rights to design, develop and distribute exclusive Hendrix merchandise worldwide, including clothing, accessories and collectibles.