Great Lives
#405
Jimi Hendrix
November 27, 1942 - September 18, 1970
Before he became famous for wielding a guitar, Jimi Hendrix spent a year carrying a gun.
Like so many things in his short but extraordinary life, there's some dispute about how Johnny Allen Hendrix enlisted in the US Army. According to a 1967 interview with Rave magazine, Jimi signed up bec…
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