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Room Full of Mirrors

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5th June 2006

Price: £12.99

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The Arts / Music

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Selected: Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780340826843

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‘Charles R. Cross has got as close to the truth as anyone yet in his exhaustive and ground-breaking account of the life of the greatest guitarist in the history of rock.’
Observer

‘Superb’

Sunday Telegraph

Jimi Hendrix continues to fascinate, and sell huge quantities of albums, even 35 years after his death. Quite apart from his influence on musicians and fans, a large part of the appeal of his sensational life story lies in the thrill of the era whose values he came to stand for. The Sixties still exert a massive pull over pop culture and this is genuinely a book for anyone interested, not only in Hendrix but also in anything to do with the pop culture of the last 40 years.

Meticulously researched and sensitively and beautifully written, this is a labour of love that reveals the nuances, foibles and tragedies of the human being behind the iconic image.

This is the sweeping, authoritative and colourful biography that Jimi Hendrix and that his legions of fans, young and old deserves.

Reviews

<i>Mojo<i />
'meticulously researched'
<i>Guardian<i />
''Charles R Cross has got as close to the truth as anyone yet in his exhaustive and ground-breaking account of the life of the greatest guitarist in the history of rock.'
<i>Sunday Telegraph
'Hendrix emerges from this superb biography as not only a big old sexy genius, but as a funny, sensitive, and very naughty boy.'
For HEAVIER THAN HEAVEN:
Los Angeles Times
One of the most moving and revealing books ever written about a rock star.
Lynn Barber, Daily Telegraph
Cross's research is impeccable... he writes with a fine mixture of sympathy and sense, weeding the myth of all its lies and exaggerations but never minimising the complexity of his subject.
Q Magazine
Wins immediate entry into the rock lit pantheon. Five stars.
The Sunday Times
A superbly researched and harrowing book.
Observer
Cross's portrayal of a shy but prodigiously gifted child is a joy to read.
New York Times Book Review
Groundbreaking