There was nothing pretty about the death of a man whose life – as a master guitarist who had such hits as Purple Haze – became mythical after his death at just 27
and famously shone at 1967's Monterey Pop Festival and 1969's Woodstock – became mythical after his death at just 27.John Bannister in 1970: as a young doctor, he treated Jimi Hendrix when he was rushed to hospital on the day he died."He'd obviously been dead for at least half an hour," Bannister, now 78 and living in Sydney, says. He remembers a slim woman, likely to be Hendrix's last girlfriend Monika Dannemann, watching from the other side of a door.
As they had a cup of tea after signing the death certificate, another doctor asked him – a jazz lover who played piano - if he knew who their patient was. Dr Bob Brown, who went on to become a Senator and long-time leader of the Australian Greens, met the ambulance that had come from Dannemann's Notting Hill flat to the hospital., Brown remembers Hendrix being taken along in a trolley and "his lady friend was coming along behind". He immediately knew there was nothing they could do for him.
They met on his first night in London – she was a 20-year-old DJ in a club and he was a little-known 23-year-old musician with a new English manager who had spotted him playing in a New York club. She helped him get a taxi back to his hotel and they stayed talking in the lounge.
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