Jimi Hendrix has claimed the No. 1 spot on a ranking of the greatest guitarists of all time.

In 2026, BBC Music’s Classical Music ranked “Sunshine of Your Love” as one of the greatest guitar riffs of all time, noting that Jimi Hendrix was such a fan of the song that he got banned by the BBC ...

With Axis: Bold as Love, the Jimi Hendrix Experience further explored the outer limits of psychedelic music. Where their debut album, Are You Experienced, explored the territory via rock and blues, ...

Part of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s, he went on to reclaim a leading musician of the psychedelic era as a distinctly ...

A 1970 hit was named among the greatest guitar riffs of all time and it remains a classic for rock and metal fans.

Jimi Hendrix died at age 27 in a London bed, officially from an overdose. But recent experts and witnesses are challenging ...

Jimi Hendrix was never afraid to give the artists he liked their flowers, and his adoration for these five bordered on ...

Washington state native Jimi Hendrix began his music career by backing artists such as Little Richard and The Isley Brothers. Yet fans in England were more receptive to his brand of rock ‘n’ roll and ...

Kramer looks back on borrowing from the Beatles... and that game-changing day at the studio that forever defined Hendrix's ...

The incendiary end to Jimi Hendrix's iconic show at 1967's Monterey Pop Fest will be memorialized in bobblehead form with the Jimi Hendrix Live at Monterey bobblehead. The official collectible is soon ...

Hendrix’s music career was short but legendary. He died at 27 years old in 1970 after mixing alcohol and sleeping pills. The peak years of his recording career happened in the back half of the 1960s, ...

Two weeks after his untimely death, Jimi Hendrix was laid to rest on Oct. 1, 1970 after a small burial ceremony in Seattle. Rolling Stone reported on the gathering, which was held at the Dunlap ...