🎵 2022-03-27 21:08:26 – Paris/France.
The Who's Roger Daltrey spoke of the last time he saw Jimi Hendrix, days before his untimely death on September 18, 1970.
Daltrey is one of four people who hung out with Hendrix the week before he died aged 27 and shared intimate details about their last time together in a recent BBC interview with the comedian. Romesh Ranganathan.
"No one knows except me and about three other people who are still alive," said Daltrey, who shared his personal story. Over the years, some controversial theories have floated around Hendrix's death, which was caused by an apparent drug overdose, including suicide and rumors of foul play.
"It's the weekend before he died," Daltrey shared. “I was on tour in Germany, and Jimi and his friend, Devon Wilson, came to my cottage in Berkshire. At home, there was my future wife Heather and another girl named Katherine.
Daltrey said Hendrix was talking about the future and wanting to move into a more "jazzy" form of music and was excited about a studio in New York. “He and Devon were doing this stuff, what gospel singers do, and they were doing it with call and response — and they were doing it with Bob Dylan lyrics. So song after song he quotes one line she would quote the other…but it gradually slowed down, slowed down until Devon finally fell asleep.
At some point during their time together, Daltrey said his fiancée Heather told him it was "obvious that Jimi was taking more and more barbiturates and his speech was getting slurred." Wilson fell asleep and was carried to bed by Heather and Katherine. "Then he passed out, and now they're starting to worry," said Daltrey, who added that Heather and Katherine then put Hendrix in a bed and took his boots off around 2 a.m.
"So they put the kettle on for a cup of tea and blow me off if 10 minutes later he [Hendrix] doesn't show up in the doorway with his boots back, his hat on all the smell biased and say, 'Okay, I'm ready for the interview,'" Daltrey said. “I mean, you can't make it up. »
At 11 o'clock everyone, Hendrix and Wilson returned to London by taxi.
“It was this weekend,” Daltrey said, “and like I said, he was right like the rain in the morning like nothing had happened. »
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