Sharon Lawrence has written a deeply personal account of her friendship with Jimi Hendrix and of the legal
     wranglings surrounding him. I know this was a difficult and painful book to write: it was painful to read about
     the abandonment and exploitation of the gentle, creative genius that he was.

     This well researched book gives wonderful insight into Jimi's formative years in Seattle, following him through
     his meteoric rise to fame and its accompanying haze of sex, alcohol and drugs that eventually did him in. It is
     based on over three hundred interviews with people who knew Jimi. It is brooks no illusions about the man but
     at the same time reflects the writer's love of Jimi's music.

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