I listened to his music the first time around, and was one of the generation who appreciated him when he happened on the scene.
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Originally Posted by Sammi79
Disregarding the official line about his death, my mother who worked on a couple of his shows as a wardrobe assistant told me he died from asphyxia after inhaling his own vomit as a result of mixing barbiturates and alcohol and laid on his back in the ambulance which unfortunately as he was unconscious at the time the attending paramedics failed to notice. (I don't know if this is true it's just what I've been told, and it would be wrong to lay fault with the medical staff involved as they were likely working very hard in an extremely tense state) He was also practically penniless at that time after being conned out of most of his money by groupies, hangers on and last but certainly not least record companies.  |
Umm, that
is the official verdict, according to the Death Certificate. His friend Eric Burdon (of 'The Animals' fame) said that he was already dead when Hendrix's girlfriend found the body and came to him, and that he was the one who called the police and the ambulance. The story we heard at the time was that he had taken the barbituates because he was suffering from the flu, and the alcohol because the medicine wasn't helping.
Again, that was the story at the time.