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Topic: Jimi Hendrix

Rock guitar virtuoso Jimi Hendrix (1942 - 1970) caught mid guitar-break during his performance at the Isle of Wight Festival, August 1970. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images) (vening Standard/Getty Images)

Hendrix's anthem embodied hope & fear

Mark Clague - The Conversation
Jimi Hendrix (AP/Bruce Fleming)

A very 60s Christmas

Lucian K. Truscott IV
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The night Jimi Hendrix plugged in

John Perry
(AP Photo/Jeffrey T. Barnes)

When anthem protests rocked the U.S.A.

Jefferson Morley - Alternet
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Bob Dylan (AP)

Better than Dylan

Noah Berlatsky
André Benjamin in "Jimi: All Is by My Side"

Weirdest rock biopic ever

Andrew O'Hehir
Grover Norquist (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Grover's big summer

Elias Isquith
Jimi Hendrix (AP/Legacy)

Pop music's debt to black rock

Noah Berlatsky
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Bob Dylan (AP)

Better than Dylan

Noah Berlatsky
Andre Benjamin as Jimi Hendrix in "All Is By My Side" (Toronto International Film Festival)

Dueling Jimi Hendrix biopics

Neil Drumming

The Weekly Feed
(Neale Cousland/Shutterstock)

Prachi Gupta
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Amy Winehouse (AP/Keystone, Steffen Schmidt)

Study: Solo artists die young

Tom Jacobs - Pacific Standard
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