It’s May 1970. Jimi Hendrix plays a transcendental concert in Berkeley Community Theatre with the backdrop of hundreds of students outside protesting the Vietnam War and President Nixon’s tough crackdowns. Not only did he bring young black and white music lovers together through his music, he was also a pioneer in his use of the electric guitar.
When he died at the age of twenty-seven the world was rocked. His sudden death have left many asking whether it was really the drugs that killed him or was there a greater agenda at play?
And perhaps with good reason. In 2009 James “Tappy” Wright, a former roadie for Jimi Hendrix, published a book titled Rock Roadie: Backstage and Confidential with Hendrix, Elvis, The Animals, Tina Turner, and an All-Star Cast. Thirty-nine years after the legendary rockstar’s passing Wright revealed that in 1971 a man named Mike Jeffery admitted to murdering Hendrix. But who is Mike Jeffery and what motive might he have to kill such a high-profile superstar?
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