Reply With Quote
pretty convenient to claim a dead guy confessed a high-profile murder murder to you...
Rock legend Jimi Hendrix was murdered by his manager as part of an insurance scam, a new book by one of his former aides claims.
Hendrix choked to death on his own vomit when he was 27 – but the exact cir stances of his death have always been a mystery.
Now James ‘Tappy’ Wright, one of the rock star’s roadies, claims that Hendrix’s manager, Michael Jeffery, confessed to killing him. Jeffery is said to have made a drunken confession a year after the star’s death in September 1970.
An ambulance crew found Hendrix’s body in the Samarkand Hotel in West London, in the room of Monika Dannemann, a girl he had known for just a few days.
Wright claims Jeffery was worried that Hendrix was preparing to find a new manager when their deal was due to end in December 1970. According to Wright, Jeffery said he went to the hotel room and stuffed Hendrix full of pills and wine.
The book, called Rock Roadie, out next month, recalls Wright’s life with various rock stars during the Sixties, including Tina Turner and Elvis Presley.
In it, Wright claims Jeffery, who was married to actress Gillian French, made the confession at his apartment in 1971, two years before he died in a plane crash.
He writes: ‘I can still hear that conversation, see the man I’d known for so much of my life, his face pale, hand clutching at his glass in sudden rage.’
He says Jeffery told him: ‘I had to do it, Tappy. You understand, don’t you? I had to do it. You know damn well what I’m talking about.’
He quotes Jeffery as saying: ‘I was in London the night of Jimi’s death and together with some old friends ...we went round to Monika’s hotel room, got a handful of pills and stuffed them into his mouth ...then poured a few bottles of red wine deep into his windpipe.
‘I had to do it. Jimi was worth much more to me dead than alive. That son of a was going to leave me. If I lost him, I’d lose everything.’
Wright claims that Jeffery told him he had taken out a life insurance policy on Hendrix worth $2million (£1.2million) with Jeffery as beneficiary.
The official cause of death was ‘barbiturate intoxication and inhalation of vomit’, and the coroner recorded an open verdict.
This was vital for Jeffery.
Had the cause of death been suicide it would have given the insurers an escape clause.
The ambulancemen who found the body said he was discovered alone in the hotel room, lying in his clothes on his back, with a gas fire burning and the door wide open.
There is no record of who called 999.
John Bannister, the surgeon who tried to revive Hendrix at hospital, said he was convinced he had drowned in red wine. Yet Hendrix had very little alcohol in his bloodstream.
In 1992 he wrote: ‘I recall vividly the very large amounts of red wine that oozed from his stomach and his lungs, and in my opinion there was no question that Jimi Hendrix had drowned, if not at home then on the way to the hospital.
‘At the time I felt that he had either been on sedative tablets, to sleep or otherwise, and that he had imbibed copious amounts of red wine prior to going to sleep. I would suspect that he regurgitated the red wine and drowned.’
link
Last edited by JudynTX; 06-02-2009 at 10:30 AM.
pretty convenient to claim a dead guy confessed a high-profile murder murder to you...
I just keep thinking of "what could have been".Could you imagine what his music would have been like in 2009? Dayum!
Who's Jimmy Hendrix?
eh. stevie played jimi better than jimi. stevie picked up where jimi left off. damn you, alpine valley!!!
Who's Jimmy Hendrix?
shame, shame Panda...
I copied and pasted in a hurry. Fudge!
shame, shame Panda...
just check out live at el mocombo. listen with your ears. not your eyes.
We have his DVD from Austin City Limits.
Aw honey, you hurt me deeply
Listening with your ears is essential for SRV because there ain't much to look at I'm afraid.
That's pure bull !!
sometimes the truth hurts. i know.
My favorite one is Live at Montreaux; it's my most efficient "house cleaning" music.
There is no truth in your statement.
how mighty white of you.
Not a surprising comment coming from someone once referred to as a "brown _____". You fill in the blank
Brown cougar?Not a surprising comment coming from someone once referred to as a "brown _____". You fill in the blank
No he's not a cougar!Brown cougar?
Brown bear?No he's not a cougar!
+1no he's not a cougar!
Hmmmm. Much, much better than what I was thinking!!Brown bear?
I love Hendrix, always have and always will.
BUT, SRV was just on a different level. He took some of the Hendrix songs and moved them to a different plane of existence. And I know this is all personal opinion so some will disagree. IMO, Stevie was the best ever, and to this day is still the best ever.
I agree completely. I would have liked to see how far Hendrix could have gone, SRV also, for that matter.
Such tragedies to loose those incredible talents too soon.
Stevie would be rolling over in his grave to know that there are people out there who are of the opinion that Jimi was a lesser guitarist.
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)
Posting Permissions
