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Source: NPR "News & Notes with Ed Gordon"

Roundup

11-8-05

Jimi Hendrix and the 'Room Full of Mirrors' [9min]

Thirty-nine years ago today, the Jimi Hendrix Experience played its first show as a headliner, at a club in Munich, Germany. Farai Chideya talks about the founding of the Jimi Hendrix Experience with Charles Cross, author of Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix.

Read entire article at NPR "News & Notes with Ed Gordon"