Hendrix Dies in London Hotel - Hotels Where Bad S%$# Happens

In 2003 Rolling Stone named Jimi Hendrix number 1 in their Top 100 Guitarists of All Time. He captivated audiences at the Montery Pop Festival where he acid induced notoriously lit his guitar on fire and at Woodstock by doing a controversial guitar rendition of Star Spangled Banner (see Woodstock documentary). On September 18, 1970, twenty-seven year-old Hendrix was found dead in the basement flat of Smarkland Hotel. The cause of death has been up for debate. He had been drinking and taking sleeping pills and apparently died choking on his own vomit. Police claim that when they came to get his dead body, the door to the flat was wide open and the apartment empty. However, his girlfriend at the time (who later committed suicide) and other speculative reports that he was alive when the paramedics arrived and they did not support Hendrix’s head adequately, which was in fact the cause of his death.