Did Eric Clapton discover Jimi Hendrix?

It was Linda Keith, girlfriend of Keith Richards, and then a 20-year-old Vogue model with a love for the blues (so much so that she banned Richards from playing the Stones' material on their record player!), who around 1965, heard Jimi at the Cafe Au Gogo, and started trying to get music contacts interested in him. read more

The 'extraordinary' Jimi Hendrix with the Experience at Olympia, London, on 22 December 1967. Photograph: Ray Stevenson/Rex Features O n the morning of 21 September 1966, a Pan Am airliner from New York landed at Heathrow, carrying among its passengers a black American musician from a poor home. read more

The next morning Eric Clapton, along with the rest of the world, learned that Jimi Hendrix was dead. One thing is for certain. The British blues rock wave of the 60s and 70s would have been much different if Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix had never met. read more