Philip Norman’s Diary: Jimi Hendrix in London, the babying of Britain and Corbyn’s unlikely restaurant chain
Although Jimi was born in Seattle, his story is as much a fable of mid-1960s London as that of the Beatles or the Rolling Stones.
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