Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix
by Charles R. Cross
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Author: Charles R. CrossEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-08-03
ISBN: 1401300286
Number of pages: 400
Publisher: Hyperion
Book Reviews of Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix
Book Review: I'll Meet You in the Next World and Don't Be Late
Summary: 5 Stars
This is an entertaining biography. I have been a Jimi Hendrix fan since I was 14 and it was his guitar playing that made me want to go out and buy a guitar and learn how to play at that same age.
I have all 3 studio ablums, the Band of Gyspys, and some of the later posthumous recordings. This book helped to fill in the gaps that were missing from the many DVDs, videotapes, and various audio out there.
Cross paints a good picture of an icon that struggled for so long. He wasn't always considered the best back when he first started out. He was humbled by people better than him but he had such drive to go out there and keep trying. That's a positive message to those who just think that he life was just a negative world of drugs and an early death. He did want he dreamed that he always wanted to. Whether it was joining the Screaming Eagles or jamming at some local NYC club, he made up his mind and did it.
This book also doesn't gloss over his faults like abusing women, having a bad temper after drinking too much, and being short on cash with a hit record on the charts. It just makes him more human. Sometimes its nice to see an icon viewed as a real person without all the hype.
That is probably the book's strength. It shows Jimi before the legend became bigger than the man.
I haven't read many of the other biographies but I want like to check out the one by Eddie Kramer.
It is also nice to see that the Experince Hendrix, LLC is doing a great job of putting out quality DVDs in this century. I hope his legend never dies out and I don't think it will. 100 years from now someone will still be listening to Purple Haze and wondering if they ever Been Experienced?
Summary of Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix
On the 35th anniversary of his death comes the definitive biography of rock 'n' roll legend Jimi Hendrix-by the New York Times bestselling author Charles R. Cross oinciding with the 35th anniversary of Jimi Hendrix's tragic death in 1970, Room Full of Mirrors is the definitive biography of rock 'n' roll's greatest guitarist. Meticulously researched and based on more than 300 interviews with those who knew him best-more than half of whom have never spoken about him before-this landmark book recounts the entire arc of Hendrix's life, from his troubled childhood in Seattle's projects and the early loss of his mother to his struggles against racial prejudice as a young musician and his rapid ascent to the top amidst the swinging London scene, and finally to the apex of his career headlining Woodstock in 1969, with his death occurring a year later.General Books
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