1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,480 Speaker 1: The twenty seven Club is the production of I Heart 2 00:00:02,600 --> 00:00:07,360 Speaker 1: Radio and Double Elvis Media. Jimmie Hendrix died at the 3 00:00:07,400 --> 00:00:11,119 Speaker 1: age of and he lived a life perilously close to 4 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:14,400 Speaker 1: the edge. I can give you twenty seven reasons why 5 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:18,200 Speaker 1: that statement is true. Six would be the number of 6 00:00:18,239 --> 00:00:21,800 Speaker 1: strings that rang out, sizzled, sang, and vibrated when Jimmie 7 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:25,200 Speaker 1: Hendrix touched them with his long fingers, fingers that would 8 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:28,680 Speaker 1: summon forth sounds that to this day, fifty years later, 9 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:32,479 Speaker 1: remain unique to him, almost like he was a magician 10 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:36,000 Speaker 1: first and a musician second. Another one would be the 11 00:00:36,080 --> 00:00:38,800 Speaker 1: number of times that Miles Davis made a last minute 12 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:42,519 Speaker 1: extortion attempt for a recording session with Jimmy, because who 13 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:45,479 Speaker 1: wouldn't pay Miles and Jimmy a ridiculous amount of cold, 14 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:48,680 Speaker 1: hard cash to jam in the studio for a day. 15 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:51,240 Speaker 1: Ten more would be the number of minutes Eric Burden 16 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:54,320 Speaker 1: would have to frantically bury drugs in a garden before 17 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:57,240 Speaker 1: an ambulance arrived at the rented flat where Jimmy lay 18 00:00:57,320 --> 00:01:00,920 Speaker 1: unresponsive in bed in. Another ten would be the number 19 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:04,360 Speaker 1: of vesper ex pills that Monica Daneman would find strewn 20 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:07,800 Speaker 1: around Jimmy's bed in floor, just hours before he would 21 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:12,160 Speaker 1: be declared dead at St. Mary Abbott's Hospital. All totally 22 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:18,399 Speaker 1: on this our eleventh episode of season one, Sizzling strings, 23 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:23,080 Speaker 1: hard bop, extortion, buried drugs, a lifeless body, and they 24 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:28,240 Speaker 1: always searching Jimmy Hendricks. I'm Jake Brennan. In This is 25 00:01:28,319 --> 00:02:06,800 Speaker 1: the Seven. Eric Burden was on his hands and knees, 26 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:10,560 Speaker 1: digging frantically in the garden. He yanked a handful of 27 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:13,000 Speaker 1: green leaves from the ground and threw them to the side. 28 00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:17,000 Speaker 1: A cluster of flowers were up ended, a brightly colored casualty. 29 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:20,560 Speaker 1: He made a small crater in the soil, dug down 30 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:25,280 Speaker 1: a few inches dirt under his finger nails. His heart 31 00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:28,640 Speaker 1: was pounding. He thought he heard sirens in the distance. 32 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:31,720 Speaker 1: He stuck his soil incrusted hands in the pockets of 33 00:02:31,720 --> 00:02:34,320 Speaker 1: his jeans to retrieve all of the contraband he had 34 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:37,799 Speaker 1: grabbed from the tables and floors and Monica's rented flat. 35 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:42,280 Speaker 1: An assortment of pills, small bags with powdery contents, too 36 00:02:42,320 --> 00:02:46,200 Speaker 1: thick but tightly wrapped joints. He shoved it all into 37 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:48,639 Speaker 1: the hole he had created, and then started to heap 38 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:53,400 Speaker 1: clumps of soil back on top. The garden plot was small, 39 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:56,720 Speaker 1: framed by an ornate, black wrought iron fence. It was 40 00:02:56,800 --> 00:02:59,120 Speaker 1: directly next to the small set of stairs that led 41 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:02,880 Speaker 1: into Monica's heartman at the summer can. People walked by 42 00:03:02,919 --> 00:03:06,080 Speaker 1: on the sidewalk, going about their daily business, usually Friday 43 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:10,280 Speaker 1: morning stuff, almost lunchtime. Eric was small enough a man 44 00:03:10,320 --> 00:03:13,880 Speaker 1: to go relatively unnoticed, obscured partially by the fence and 45 00:03:13,919 --> 00:03:17,440 Speaker 1: the plants growing around it. The knees of his jeans 46 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:19,880 Speaker 1: sank into the wet soil. He tried to make everything 47 00:03:19,919 --> 00:03:22,920 Speaker 1: look as undisturbed as possible, but the tidy garden was 48 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:26,960 Speaker 1: the least of his worries right now. Jimmie Hendricks was 49 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:31,519 Speaker 1: in that apartment. He wasn't awake minutes ago when Eric 50 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:34,160 Speaker 1: was in there. He wasn't moving, and Eric wasn't even 51 00:03:34,160 --> 00:03:36,800 Speaker 1: sure if he was breathing. Monica had mentioned on the 52 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:39,160 Speaker 1: phone that he had puked all over himself in bed, 53 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:41,920 Speaker 1: but Eric didn't have time to confirm any of that. 54 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:45,480 Speaker 1: He was in full panic more, collecting as many drugs 55 00:03:45,480 --> 00:03:49,120 Speaker 1: as he could before the authorities showed up. The cops 56 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:51,000 Speaker 1: would have a field day if they entered that room 57 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:53,920 Speaker 1: and found all the ship, the grass, the powder, the pills, 58 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:56,760 Speaker 1: the pipes, and the papers and the baggies. Eric didn't 59 00:03:56,760 --> 00:03:59,440 Speaker 1: pause long enough to sort out exactly what it all was. 60 00:03:59,640 --> 00:04:02,840 Speaker 1: It just all had to go in the ground, buried below, 61 00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:05,560 Speaker 1: because it wouldn't just be Jimmy's ass that the police 62 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:09,000 Speaker 1: would be after. It would be all of them, collateral damage, 63 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:12,920 Speaker 1: guilt by association. They'd go after Monica, Chaz, Mitch, Billy 64 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:15,760 Speaker 1: Jeffrey and just look at the Grateful Dead's drug bust 65 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:18,760 Speaker 1: in New Orleans earlier that year. The Dead weren't the 66 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:22,560 Speaker 1: only ones who got pitched. Nineteen others were arrested dealers, road, 67 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:25,159 Speaker 1: He's friends, locals who were partying with him. If you 68 00:04:25,200 --> 00:04:28,440 Speaker 1: were in the orbit would be on the list. Yes, 69 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:31,560 Speaker 1: we're going high, Hi Hi High on Magic Mountain were 70 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:34,839 Speaker 1: never coming down. Eric knew he'd be at the top 71 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:37,000 Speaker 1: of the cops hit list. Ship He had just jammed 72 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:39,880 Speaker 1: with Jimmy. A few nights earlier, he'd been playing at 73 00:04:39,960 --> 00:04:43,279 Speaker 1: Ronnie Scott's Jazz club in Soho with War, the new 74 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:46,080 Speaker 1: band he'd formed with a crew of California musicians who'd 75 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:50,279 Speaker 1: been backing l. A. Rams Vet Deacon Jones their first single, 76 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:54,200 Speaker 1: the Latin tinged, absurd funk tale Spill. The wine had 77 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:57,599 Speaker 1: flowed freely from radios and turntables all over the world 78 00:04:57,640 --> 00:05:02,520 Speaker 1: earlier that summer. It was a few nights ago September fifteen, 79 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:05,039 Speaker 1: Jimmy showed up at Ronnie Scott's looking to sit in 80 00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:07,680 Speaker 1: with Burden and the Boys get his jam on. He 81 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:10,320 Speaker 1: didn't have his guitar with him, which Eric thought was 82 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:13,760 Speaker 1: super strange, but something else was missing. Besides his guitar. 83 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:18,080 Speaker 1: Jimmy had been out of it, like completely songs. He 84 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:21,520 Speaker 1: had bumbled up to Eric, his eyes almost fully closed, 85 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:24,640 Speaker 1: his speech slurring. Eric figured he was rolling on a 86 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:28,760 Speaker 1: handful of ludes, maybe even some. Smack War's heart player 87 00:05:28,839 --> 00:05:31,920 Speaker 1: Lee Oscar made eye contact with Eric for long enough 88 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:35,080 Speaker 1: to give him a dismissive headshain. Jimmy wasn't getting near 89 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:39,280 Speaker 1: their stage that night. Imagine that shaking off the greatest 90 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:42,440 Speaker 1: guitar player in the world from climbing onto your stage. 91 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:45,960 Speaker 1: Imagine telling yourself that you didn't want Jimmy Hendrix, of 92 00:05:46,040 --> 00:05:48,760 Speaker 1: all musicians, to join you on the stage to play 93 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:51,359 Speaker 1: music with. Dude had to have been wicked messed up 94 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:53,719 Speaker 1: to warrant that call, and the next night was a 95 00:05:53,720 --> 00:05:58,640 Speaker 1: different story. War was back on stage Ronnie Scott's and 96 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:01,400 Speaker 1: Jimmy came around again, and this time he was with 97 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:03,880 Speaker 1: It was sober enough to give Eric in the band 98 00:06:03,880 --> 00:06:07,159 Speaker 1: of Confidence, and Jimmy joined the big band. Playing through 99 00:06:07,240 --> 00:06:10,359 Speaker 1: Mother Earth and Tobacco Road delivered the kind of frenetic 100 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:12,760 Speaker 1: R and B solos he had cooked up years before 101 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:14,599 Speaker 1: when he was back in the Isisley Burns in the 102 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:17,799 Speaker 1: Little Richard like he was closing up some circle, back 103 00:06:17,839 --> 00:06:21,200 Speaker 1: from the psychedelic wilderness to that slinky raw sound that 104 00:06:21,279 --> 00:06:23,279 Speaker 1: reminded him of the music he had come up on. 105 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:28,920 Speaker 1: As Eric continued to ensure the drugs were safely hidden 106 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:31,240 Speaker 1: beneath dug up soil, he thought about all the other 107 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:34,880 Speaker 1: times he had sweated out with Jimmy playing music, partying. 108 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:36,920 Speaker 1: He thought of the day of the previous year when 109 00:06:36,920 --> 00:06:39,080 Speaker 1: he and Jimmy sat on the roof of Jimmy's Brook 110 00:06:39,160 --> 00:06:42,799 Speaker 1: Street flat in London, near the American Embassy and watched 111 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:50,000 Speaker 1: a serpentine anti Vietnam protests Sterbay. Satisfied with the rush 112 00:06:50,080 --> 00:06:53,240 Speaker 1: burial job, Eric needed to scram He'd have to check 113 00:06:53,279 --> 00:06:55,960 Speaker 1: in with Jimmy and Monica. Later, he thought back on 114 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:58,240 Speaker 1: the advice he had first given Monica when she had 115 00:06:58,279 --> 00:07:01,080 Speaker 1: called in a panic. She was looking for a doctor, 116 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:04,840 Speaker 1: looking for a friend, desperately looking for advice. Give him 117 00:07:04,839 --> 00:07:07,240 Speaker 1: black coffee and I could suggest he give his face 118 00:07:07,279 --> 00:07:09,720 Speaker 1: a good slap, knock him out of it. And Jimmy 119 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:12,360 Speaker 1: had gone to that place before, that place where sleep 120 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:16,160 Speaker 1: and drugs met. Hell, they'd all gone there before, some caffeine, 121 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:21,680 Speaker 1: a little backhand. He'd come to how stupid that advice 122 00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:24,080 Speaker 1: seemed to him now, his wrist deep in the earth 123 00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:27,120 Speaker 1: outside the stoop of twenty two lands Down Crescent, an 124 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:30,760 Speaker 1: assortment of evidence and paraphernalia shoved sloppily into the ground, 125 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:35,640 Speaker 1: his friend unresponsive inside on a bed. When he realized 126 00:07:35,680 --> 00:07:38,560 Speaker 1: how serious Monica was on the phone, Eric ran over 127 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:41,840 Speaker 1: to her flat in record time, and he had minutes 128 00:07:41,880 --> 00:07:45,040 Speaker 1: to pretty the place up, prepare steal themselves for whatever 129 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:48,520 Speaker 1: was about to happen. For what was coming, Monica had 130 00:07:48,520 --> 00:07:51,760 Speaker 1: called for an ambulance from the wailing sirens. Sounds could 131 00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:54,640 Speaker 1: be heard just blocks away. The paramedics would be there 132 00:07:54,640 --> 00:08:26,760 Speaker 1: in a matter of moments. Yeah, the continent of Australia 133 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:31,160 Speaker 1: fell easily. There simply weren't enough troops to defend it. 134 00:08:31,160 --> 00:08:34,959 Speaker 1: It had been taken for granted. Australias small as continents 135 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:37,600 Speaker 1: go hiitten away in a remote corner of the world, 136 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:42,080 Speaker 1: easy pickings. The invading Howards outnumbered the local armies by 137 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:45,400 Speaker 1: about two to one. Australia may have had a fighting chance, 138 00:08:45,440 --> 00:08:51,000 Speaker 1: but within seconds it was a casualty of war. The 139 00:08:51,080 --> 00:08:53,720 Speaker 1: dice tumbled from Jimmy's hand in the battle was his 140 00:08:54,280 --> 00:08:58,800 Speaker 1: sweet victory. Jimmy chuckled and swept Chas Chandler's armies from 141 00:08:58,800 --> 00:09:02,199 Speaker 1: the risk board, moved his armies into Australia, knocked the 142 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:04,480 Speaker 1: chunk of ash hanging off the end of his dunhill 143 00:09:04,520 --> 00:09:08,040 Speaker 1: into the nearby ash tray, and took a drag. Chas 144 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:10,599 Speaker 1: laughed too, but he wasn't out of this fight, and 145 00:09:10,679 --> 00:09:13,720 Speaker 1: there was plenty of world left to conquer. And after all, 146 00:09:13,920 --> 00:09:16,960 Speaker 1: there was no limit to their time. Two old friends 147 00:09:16,960 --> 00:09:20,960 Speaker 1: could do this all night, talk, smoke, plot, laugh, play, risk. 148 00:09:21,440 --> 00:09:25,040 Speaker 1: It was almost meditative. It was late on Wednesday night, 149 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:30,040 Speaker 1: September six. Chaz's baby and wife slept in the next 150 00:09:30,160 --> 00:09:33,720 Speaker 1: room at chass London flat. The place was quiet, The 151 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:36,280 Speaker 1: room had Jimmy and Chas's attention. It had been a 152 00:09:36,280 --> 00:09:39,160 Speaker 1: long time coming. On the last few nights of his life, 153 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:44,280 Speaker 1: Jimmie Hendrix was busy making plans despite a lack of sleep. 154 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:47,679 Speaker 1: He was beginning to feel clear headed, fresh, engaged, alert. 155 00:09:48,080 --> 00:09:50,520 Speaker 1: He was staring down a few days off in London. 156 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:53,840 Speaker 1: It would do his body good, and with this clear head, 157 00:09:53,920 --> 00:09:56,640 Speaker 1: Jimmy began to take stock of his world. He needed 158 00:09:56,679 --> 00:09:59,520 Speaker 1: to make some changes, and nothing could change until Michael 159 00:09:59,559 --> 00:10:06,800 Speaker 1: Jeffrey was out of the picture. Jeffrey's contract as Jimmy's 160 00:10:06,840 --> 00:10:10,760 Speaker 1: manager was expiring next month in October. His time was up. 161 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:14,640 Speaker 1: He was deadweight, anxiety producing deadweight, and he had to go. 162 00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:18,840 Speaker 1: Jeffrey had racked up debt, sabotage the band of Gypsies 163 00:10:18,960 --> 00:10:22,480 Speaker 1: undermined Jimmy's artistic impulses. Gotten Jimmy mixed up with the mob, 164 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:25,000 Speaker 1: may have dosed him with bad ls. Waved a little 165 00:10:25,040 --> 00:10:27,880 Speaker 1: gun around as he did it. The whole time, Jeffrey 166 00:10:27,920 --> 00:10:30,559 Speaker 1: was playing some game to keep Jimmy preoccupied in the 167 00:10:30,559 --> 00:10:35,000 Speaker 1: place of distracting the things. The studio in New York City, 168 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:38,800 Speaker 1: the house outside of Woodstock, drugs, endless touring, a two 169 00:10:38,800 --> 00:10:42,280 Speaker 1: faced Vengali, ruthlessly all business on one side, want to 170 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:45,000 Speaker 1: be hepcat getting stoned with the cool kids on the other, 171 00:10:45,400 --> 00:10:48,480 Speaker 1: all the while chasing that dollar. And what did Jimmy 172 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:50,480 Speaker 1: have to show for it. He had no idea how 173 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:52,360 Speaker 1: much money he had or where it was kept if 174 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:55,319 Speaker 1: he wanted to get it, and Jimmy saw through the bullshit. 175 00:10:55,679 --> 00:10:58,040 Speaker 1: He needed to make up for lost time, get a 176 00:10:58,120 --> 00:11:01,920 Speaker 1: plan in place, and that plans started with Chas that 177 00:11:02,120 --> 00:11:05,959 Speaker 1: night in chas Is Flat, Jimmy apologized. Chas had been 178 00:11:06,080 --> 00:11:09,680 Speaker 1: right about everything. Jeffrey seemed right at the time, back 179 00:11:09,679 --> 00:11:13,559 Speaker 1: when he and Chaz parted ways, but hindsight was and 180 00:11:13,679 --> 00:11:17,880 Speaker 1: Jimmy could see that now he missed Chazz's creativity, his loyalty. 181 00:11:18,160 --> 00:11:21,400 Speaker 1: He wanted Chaz back back in the producer's chair. They 182 00:11:21,400 --> 00:11:24,280 Speaker 1: could record in London, away from the human zoo that 183 00:11:24,360 --> 00:11:28,560 Speaker 1: was seemingly inseparable from Electric Lady Studios. Chaz was game. 184 00:11:28,800 --> 00:11:31,199 Speaker 1: It was all water under the bridge. Jimmy had gone 185 00:11:31,240 --> 00:11:36,240 Speaker 1: to the wilderness and now he was back. Another key 186 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:40,120 Speaker 1: player in Jimmy's plan was Alan Douglas. Jimmy wanted him 187 00:11:40,120 --> 00:11:43,240 Speaker 1: as part of his new and improved management team. Alan 188 00:11:43,280 --> 00:11:46,720 Speaker 1: Douglas was the former head of United Artists Jazz Division 189 00:11:46,760 --> 00:11:49,720 Speaker 1: in the sixties. The roster of artists he'd worked with 190 00:11:49,840 --> 00:11:54,080 Speaker 1: was Deep Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Max Roach. Most recently, 191 00:11:54,120 --> 00:11:56,320 Speaker 1: he had worked with the Last Poets who would be 192 00:11:56,360 --> 00:11:59,880 Speaker 1: credited as a proto hip hop outfit. Years later, Alan 193 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:07,120 Speaker 1: Douglas had his finger firm against the pulse. Alan had 194 00:12:07,160 --> 00:12:09,520 Speaker 1: introduced Jimmy to Miles Davis a few years back, and 195 00:12:09,520 --> 00:12:13,199 Speaker 1: the two of them kept dancing around a collaboration. They 196 00:12:13,280 --> 00:12:16,480 Speaker 1: enjoyed each other's music, appreciated each other. We'll go to 197 00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:20,200 Speaker 1: each other's shows, hang out afterwards and talk shop. And 198 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:23,160 Speaker 1: they were both looking to transcend their respective genres, do 199 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:27,400 Speaker 1: something new, do something groundbreaking. Perhaps they could both help 200 00:12:27,440 --> 00:12:33,880 Speaker 1: the other get there. The much talked about Jimmie Hendricks 201 00:12:33,880 --> 00:12:36,440 Speaker 1: Miles Davis album That Never Happened is one of those 202 00:12:36,480 --> 00:12:40,000 Speaker 1: great lost what ifs in rock music history, and Alan 203 00:12:40,040 --> 00:12:42,960 Speaker 1: almost made it happen too. He worked with Jimmy and 204 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:45,440 Speaker 1: Miles to find the right time, find the right place, 205 00:12:45,760 --> 00:12:49,600 Speaker 1: worked around touring schedules, made sure that everyone was comfortably prepared, 206 00:12:49,720 --> 00:12:53,400 Speaker 1: ready to get down thirty minutes before the session was 207 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:58,599 Speaker 1: to start, Miles approached Alan yo album. Miles said in 208 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:02,040 Speaker 1: his trademark back Alley Growl, I need to get paid 209 00:13:02,080 --> 00:13:05,839 Speaker 1: fifty dollars before I even walk in that room. The 210 00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:09,160 Speaker 1: drummer Tony Williams stood next to Miles. He was young, 211 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:12,000 Speaker 1: but he was no chump. He doubled down asked Alan 212 00:13:12,080 --> 00:13:15,880 Speaker 1: for the same payout balls on these guys. Ain't that 213 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:18,520 Speaker 1: a motherfucker? Miles said, as he turned around and walked 214 00:13:18,559 --> 00:13:27,400 Speaker 1: the other way. Session never happened. You know what did happen? 215 00:13:27,760 --> 00:13:32,360 Speaker 1: Bitches brew a highly experimental vent Miles Davis album that 216 00:13:32,480 --> 00:13:35,559 Speaker 1: is arguably the result of Miles spending lots of time 217 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:39,760 Speaker 1: hanging out with Jimmie Hendrix. So guess who happened to 218 00:13:39,760 --> 00:13:41,959 Speaker 1: be in London during this last stretch of days that 219 00:13:42,080 --> 00:13:46,200 Speaker 1: Jimmy was there taking stock and making plans. Alan Douglas 220 00:13:47,440 --> 00:13:49,760 Speaker 1: on the day he met with Chaz. Jimmy also met 221 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:52,840 Speaker 1: with Alan when he managed Jimmy consider It. They talked 222 00:13:52,880 --> 00:13:55,680 Speaker 1: about the directions in which Jimmy wanted to take his music. 223 00:13:56,160 --> 00:13:58,559 Speaker 1: Alan hadn't been able to make the Miles thing happen. 224 00:13:58,720 --> 00:14:01,160 Speaker 1: Let's be honest, Miles did what Myles wanted to do, 225 00:14:01,440 --> 00:14:03,959 Speaker 1: and sometimes there was nothing anyone could do about it. 226 00:14:04,360 --> 00:14:06,960 Speaker 1: What about Gil Evans, the pianist and a ranger who 227 00:14:06,960 --> 00:14:10,200 Speaker 1: worked with Miles. Jimmy was imagining a big band and 228 00:14:10,240 --> 00:14:13,120 Speaker 1: then an even larger orchestra at Helm by Gil Evans. 229 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:16,080 Speaker 1: Alan was inspired, and they'd find a way to make 230 00:14:16,120 --> 00:14:21,440 Speaker 1: it happen. The next night, September seventeenth, Jimmy's head was full, 231 00:14:21,640 --> 00:14:25,840 Speaker 1: full of these conversations, full of possibilities. My mind's been 232 00:14:25,880 --> 00:14:30,200 Speaker 1: going through them changes. His mind was full speed ahead, racing, wired, 233 00:14:30,600 --> 00:14:35,760 Speaker 1: but also clogged up, not enough sleep, peppered with alcohol, pills, grass. 234 00:14:36,320 --> 00:14:38,720 Speaker 1: Every time you see me going somewhere, I feel like 235 00:14:38,760 --> 00:14:43,800 Speaker 1: I'm going out in my mind. At Monica's flat at 236 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:46,720 Speaker 1: the Samarkan that night, he channeled his head full of 237 00:14:46,760 --> 00:14:50,040 Speaker 1: everything into his heart. He sat down at the kitchen table, 238 00:14:50,240 --> 00:14:53,560 Speaker 1: put pen to paper, a brain dump, fueled by wine 239 00:14:53,560 --> 00:14:57,240 Speaker 1: and exhaustion and the promise of some positive changes, a 240 00:14:57,360 --> 00:15:00,720 Speaker 1: new rising sun. Story of life is quicker than the 241 00:15:00,760 --> 00:15:03,080 Speaker 1: wink of an eye. The story of love is hello 242 00:15:03,120 --> 00:15:06,840 Speaker 1: and goodbye until we meet again. The last lyrics Jimmy 243 00:15:06,880 --> 00:15:10,840 Speaker 1: ever wrote the Story of my Life are a bit inspirational. 244 00:15:10,920 --> 00:15:13,880 Speaker 1: Poster caliber, especially coming from the guy who once wrote 245 00:15:13,920 --> 00:15:17,960 Speaker 1: about butterflies and zebras and moonbeans and fairy tales about 246 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:21,520 Speaker 1: mountains falling into the sea and hippies cutting off their hair. 247 00:15:22,120 --> 00:15:24,520 Speaker 1: They make reference to the story of Jesus, to the 248 00:15:24,560 --> 00:15:29,280 Speaker 1: life cycle of humanity. Big ideas tumbled forth. I'm you 249 00:15:29,480 --> 00:15:34,480 Speaker 1: searching to be free, he wrote. When Eric Burden found 250 00:15:34,520 --> 00:15:36,840 Speaker 1: the lyrics the next morning, as he cleared the apartment 251 00:15:36,840 --> 00:15:40,440 Speaker 1: of anything incriminating, he held the handwritten sheet in his hands. 252 00:15:40,680 --> 00:15:43,080 Speaker 1: He read the lyrics, and then he re read them, 253 00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:47,200 Speaker 1: turned the page over again and again, his fingers trembling, 254 00:15:47,280 --> 00:15:50,680 Speaker 1: his brows sweating. After he had finished getting rid of 255 00:15:50,680 --> 00:15:54,360 Speaker 1: the drugs, the sirens getting closer. Jimmy's body was still 256 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:58,080 Speaker 1: inside the apartment, and Eric heard no sounds coming from inside. 257 00:15:58,520 --> 00:16:01,040 Speaker 1: What were the odds, he thought, What were the odds 258 00:16:01,040 --> 00:16:03,400 Speaker 1: that the paper he was holding in his hands was 259 00:16:03,560 --> 00:16:16,680 Speaker 1: Jimmy Hendrix suicide. Note We'll be right back after this. 260 00:16:16,760 --> 00:16:21,480 Speaker 1: We were were on the day that Jimmie Hendricks died. 261 00:16:21,680 --> 00:16:25,360 Speaker 1: Monica Daniman was awake early. Jimmy and Monica had been 262 00:16:25,480 --> 00:16:28,440 Speaker 1: up all night. When the sun rose that morning, Monica 263 00:16:28,480 --> 00:16:31,160 Speaker 1: made aim a tuna sandwich in the wee hours. The 264 00:16:31,240 --> 00:16:34,360 Speaker 1: kitchen in the flat was accommodating. Its windows were open 265 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:37,160 Speaker 1: to the incoming sunlight as it bled into London. And 266 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:39,680 Speaker 1: they talked, and they drank some wine and talked and 267 00:16:39,720 --> 00:16:43,040 Speaker 1: talked some more. Monica popped one of her sleeping pills, 268 00:16:43,320 --> 00:16:46,360 Speaker 1: vesper x. Half a tab was good enough. The whole 269 00:16:46,440 --> 00:16:48,960 Speaker 1: damn thing would send the sandman to you real quick. 270 00:16:49,480 --> 00:16:52,600 Speaker 1: She fell asleep at seven am, and Jimmy was still awake, 271 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:55,720 Speaker 1: still talking, and she was up by ten am, early 272 00:16:55,880 --> 00:16:58,520 Speaker 1: for someone who had gone to sleep only three hours before, 273 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:02,040 Speaker 1: Early for someone who was romantically involved with a musician. 274 00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:04,840 Speaker 1: When she woke up, she went on a search for smokes. 275 00:17:05,280 --> 00:17:07,359 Speaker 1: They had smoked all the cigarettes in the apartment the 276 00:17:07,440 --> 00:17:10,440 Speaker 1: night before. Jimmy liked the smokes. The way the smoke 277 00:17:10,480 --> 00:17:12,879 Speaker 1: emanated from his body was an extension of what was 278 00:17:12,920 --> 00:17:15,280 Speaker 1: going on with him at the moment. When he was happy, 279 00:17:15,320 --> 00:17:17,560 Speaker 1: a smile would fill up his face, and the smoke 280 00:17:17,640 --> 00:17:20,320 Speaker 1: from his cigarette would pume ahead of him, hang there 281 00:17:20,359 --> 00:17:22,760 Speaker 1: like a smile. When he was lost in thought, the 282 00:17:22,760 --> 00:17:25,480 Speaker 1: smoke would trail delicately from the end of his cigarette 283 00:17:25,480 --> 00:17:29,640 Speaker 1: and dissolve in this pensive way. The smoke itself was pensive, 284 00:17:30,640 --> 00:17:33,720 Speaker 1: as they ran low on cigarettes. That night, Jimmy had 285 00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:37,040 Speaker 1: offered to go out to buy reinforcements. Monica stopped him. 286 00:17:37,320 --> 00:17:39,879 Speaker 1: She enjoyed having him to herself. Didn't want to get up, 287 00:17:39,920 --> 00:17:41,760 Speaker 1: didn't want him to get up, didn't want to change 288 00:17:41,760 --> 00:17:44,119 Speaker 1: her position. One of them would go out in the morning, 289 00:17:44,240 --> 00:17:47,439 Speaker 1: and they'd worry about it later, and so here she was. 290 00:17:47,680 --> 00:17:50,880 Speaker 1: It was later. She was awake, Jimmy still asleep in bed, 291 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:54,080 Speaker 1: no smokes, nothing to pass the time while she paced 292 00:17:54,119 --> 00:17:58,520 Speaker 1: around the flat, waiting for Jimmy to wake up. So 293 00:17:58,560 --> 00:18:01,359 Speaker 1: she went searching for cigarettes. She walked out into the 294 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:05,280 Speaker 1: sidewalk of Lansdowne Crescent. She felt good, happy for Phil. 295 00:18:05,600 --> 00:18:08,280 Speaker 1: A little nick Ti would make things even better. The 296 00:18:08,359 --> 00:18:11,240 Speaker 1: day before had been wondered for the books. At least 297 00:18:11,280 --> 00:18:14,320 Speaker 1: it had started that way. Monica got Jimmy to herself. 298 00:18:14,359 --> 00:18:18,080 Speaker 1: As the day began. She had his complete attention. For Jimmy. 299 00:18:18,440 --> 00:18:21,800 Speaker 1: It was an unusually reserved day. No shows, no interviews, 300 00:18:21,840 --> 00:18:24,800 Speaker 1: no planes, no studios. He didn't have to do anything 301 00:18:24,800 --> 00:18:26,960 Speaker 1: he didn't want to do. The day was his to 302 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:29,080 Speaker 1: spend how he wanted, and he spent a great deal 303 00:18:29,119 --> 00:18:31,800 Speaker 1: of it with Monica. She got out her camera and 304 00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:34,320 Speaker 1: took photos of Jimmy in the garden. He posed with 305 00:18:34,440 --> 00:18:37,280 Speaker 1: his black offender stratocasted, and they had tea, and they 306 00:18:37,320 --> 00:18:40,520 Speaker 1: went shopping at Kensington Market of three story imporium for 307 00:18:40,640 --> 00:18:44,120 Speaker 1: hippie and bohemian fashion. Jimmy bought some clothes and they 308 00:18:44,160 --> 00:18:49,359 Speaker 1: were far out. While they were out, they ran into 309 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:54,280 Speaker 1: Devin Wilson. Monica was immediately suspicious. Devin had a way 310 00:18:54,320 --> 00:18:57,040 Speaker 1: of showing up and coaxing that darkness out of Jimmy 311 00:18:57,480 --> 00:19:01,680 Speaker 1: just when he was on a more positive path. Devon 312 00:19:01,760 --> 00:19:03,920 Speaker 1: invited them to her party over the night of Pete 313 00:19:03,920 --> 00:19:07,560 Speaker 1: Cameron's house, co founder of Track Records, Jimmy's London recordly 314 00:19:08,119 --> 00:19:12,320 Speaker 1: Jimmy said they'd be there. Monica was beyond his fucking 315 00:19:12,400 --> 00:19:16,040 Speaker 1: Devin Wilson, that black widow bitch. She would do whatever 316 00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:18,199 Speaker 1: she could do to keep tabs on Jimmy, to keep 317 00:19:18,280 --> 00:19:20,679 Speaker 1: him in her sights, her clutches, keep him hooked on 318 00:19:20,760 --> 00:19:23,520 Speaker 1: whatever she was dolling out, so he wouldn't doll out 319 00:19:23,560 --> 00:19:27,800 Speaker 1: too far himself, too far away from her. What the 320 00:19:27,840 --> 00:19:31,280 Speaker 1: hell did Devin Wilson even have without Jimmy Andrix a 321 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:34,399 Speaker 1: guitar player, here, a record producer. There, a couple of 322 00:19:34,400 --> 00:19:37,399 Speaker 1: glorified one night stands with a handful of famous people. 323 00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:42,080 Speaker 1: Monica stood at Jimmy's side, smiled and nodded at Devon 324 00:19:42,160 --> 00:19:44,919 Speaker 1: as they spoke. Of course they would love to thanks 325 00:19:44,920 --> 00:19:47,960 Speaker 1: so much for the invite. How serendipitous that Devon ran 326 00:19:47,960 --> 00:19:50,280 Speaker 1: into them on the streets of London, of all places. 327 00:19:50,560 --> 00:19:54,760 Speaker 1: What a world fucking manipulative bitch. Did she not get 328 00:19:54,760 --> 00:19:57,399 Speaker 1: the memo Jimmy belonged to Monica. Now he was going 329 00:19:57,440 --> 00:19:59,199 Speaker 1: to put a ring on it. He didn't want that 330 00:19:59,280 --> 00:20:02,080 Speaker 1: crazy as monkey lifestyle any longer. I didn't want to 331 00:20:02,080 --> 00:20:04,880 Speaker 1: be strung out in moody, didn't want to be searching anymore. 332 00:20:05,119 --> 00:20:07,159 Speaker 1: He had found what he was looking for, and it 333 00:20:07,240 --> 00:20:09,800 Speaker 1: was a German ice gating instructor who would do anything 334 00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:15,400 Speaker 1: to keep him by her side by Devon. On their 335 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:18,720 Speaker 1: way back to Jimmy's hotel room, Jimmy Amonica were approached 336 00:20:18,760 --> 00:20:21,639 Speaker 1: in traffic by a random londoner. He rolled down the 337 00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:24,160 Speaker 1: window of his Ford Mustang and there were a couple 338 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:27,239 Speaker 1: of teenage girls in the back seat. Asked Jimmy if 339 00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:30,880 Speaker 1: they wanted to join him her tea. Jimmy laugh thought 340 00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:33,720 Speaker 1: of the plaster casters in Chicago. He thought of the 341 00:20:33,720 --> 00:20:36,880 Speaker 1: pimpley teenager in Seattle. He thought too, of the wanna 342 00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:39,639 Speaker 1: be wise guys in New York. When it came to 343 00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:43,800 Speaker 1: unsolicited offers by random people on the street, Jimmy had 344 00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:48,040 Speaker 1: like a sixty six percent successory, So why the funk not? 345 00:20:49,359 --> 00:20:51,480 Speaker 1: It turned out the guy with the mustang was the 346 00:20:51,520 --> 00:20:54,600 Speaker 1: son of an English lord. His house was out of 347 00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:58,600 Speaker 1: this world extravagant. They smoked a herculean amount of pash 348 00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:01,000 Speaker 1: like you do in the house belonging to the son 349 00:21:01,040 --> 00:21:03,880 Speaker 1: of an English lord, drank some wine and some tea. 350 00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:06,480 Speaker 1: Of course it was London, after all, you can't have 351 00:21:06,520 --> 00:21:10,040 Speaker 1: your hash and wine with a little little tea. Monica 352 00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:12,320 Speaker 1: was irritated by how long they stayed at the so 353 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:16,240 Speaker 1: called lord's house. It was a little ostentatious for her taste, 354 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:18,840 Speaker 1: and Jimmy seemed more interested in their host than he 355 00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:21,760 Speaker 1: didn't hurt, and she was even more irritated when Jimmy 356 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:24,040 Speaker 1: said he was attending the party at Pete Cameron's place 357 00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:26,560 Speaker 1: later that night, the one that Devon Wilson would be 358 00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:32,160 Speaker 1: haunting like a goddamn walking ghost. Monica begrudgingly dropped him off. 359 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:34,440 Speaker 1: She waited for picked him up when he was ready, 360 00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:42,359 Speaker 1: and brought him back to her flat tuna, sandwich, wine, talk, sleep. Okay, 361 00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:44,639 Speaker 1: So the day hadn't been as perfect as she thought 362 00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:47,600 Speaker 1: when she reflected back on it, but she clung to 363 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:50,000 Speaker 1: the parts that she liked, the parts where she was 364 00:21:50,040 --> 00:21:53,280 Speaker 1: the only thing Jimmy was focused on. It could take 365 00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:55,520 Speaker 1: a minute for Monica to wean him off the crutches 366 00:21:55,560 --> 00:21:59,600 Speaker 1: he'd gotten used to drugs, women, parties, stranger's attention. But 367 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:03,320 Speaker 1: she could do it. He could be hers. And she 368 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:05,800 Speaker 1: got back to her flat at the Samarkan about half 369 00:22:05,840 --> 00:22:09,679 Speaker 1: an hour later, returned victorious, a lit cigarette between her 370 00:22:09,760 --> 00:22:12,399 Speaker 1: pointer and middle fingers and three packs of Dunhill's in 371 00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:15,560 Speaker 1: the other hand. She didn't hear Jimmy when she got back, 372 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:18,400 Speaker 1: and she didn't really expect to. He had fallen asleep 373 00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:20,679 Speaker 1: later than her, after all, and he would likely be 374 00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:23,800 Speaker 1: out for a while. She walked quietly into the bedroom 375 00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:25,359 Speaker 1: and looked at the man of her dreams in the 376 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:28,440 Speaker 1: midst of his own dreams, and the big queen size mattress, 377 00:22:29,440 --> 00:22:33,919 Speaker 1: and what she saw took a moment to process. Jimmy 378 00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:36,439 Speaker 1: was on his back, still in the purple shirt from 379 00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:40,280 Speaker 1: the day before and the blue jacket with the dramatical lapels, sleeping, 380 00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:43,720 Speaker 1: or so she thought. His eyes were closed, but his chest, 381 00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:47,760 Speaker 1: his chest wasn't rising and falling. That's when she noticed 382 00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:52,720 Speaker 1: his face covered in chunks, glistening wet, peach colored bits 383 00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:55,720 Speaker 1: of red and pink and some black too. His face 384 00:22:55,840 --> 00:22:58,240 Speaker 1: was littered with vomit. It was on the pillow to 385 00:22:58,480 --> 00:23:03,840 Speaker 1: the whole room stung. Fuck, holy fuck. Her vesperate's pills 386 00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:06,480 Speaker 1: were scattered around the bed. She hadn't noticed them when 387 00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:08,760 Speaker 1: she woke up earlier, and they were strewn on the 388 00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:11,560 Speaker 1: comfort or the pillow, handfuls of them on the floor. 389 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:14,760 Speaker 1: She screamed. She felt a shock surge through her back 390 00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:17,000 Speaker 1: as she came to understand what she was looking at, 391 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:20,919 Speaker 1: and she screamed again. The dunhill between her fingers dropped 392 00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:23,600 Speaker 1: to the floor. Her hands grabbed Jimmy's arms and she 393 00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:26,720 Speaker 1: shook him violently, and she tried to force his body 394 00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:29,359 Speaker 1: straight through the mattress. She was shaking him so hard. 395 00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:32,280 Speaker 1: She thought of Devin Wilson in the English Lord's Air 396 00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:34,840 Speaker 1: and all the other people who wanted Jimmy for themselves, 397 00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:41,040 Speaker 1: and her rage bubbled up. It came to the surface, hot, charged, unsatisfied, entitled. 398 00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:44,119 Speaker 1: She shook Jimmy's lifeless body and saw Devon's face, and 399 00:23:44,280 --> 00:23:48,560 Speaker 1: his face skeletal, visceral, and apparition. Monica was gonna shake 400 00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:50,760 Speaker 1: Devon out of Jimmy's body once and for all. She 401 00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:53,560 Speaker 1: would exercise that bitch for good. And the more she 402 00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:56,639 Speaker 1: shook him, the more nothing happened. There was no moment 403 00:23:56,680 --> 00:24:01,480 Speaker 1: of transcendence. Devon didn't ceremoniously lead you Jimmy's body. Jimmy 404 00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:05,560 Speaker 1: didn't wake up. It was just Monica's screams, the vibration 405 00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:09,280 Speaker 1: of the mattress, the pieces of vomit loosening on Jimmy's face, 406 00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:14,600 Speaker 1: cold reality. Monica realized that she had to call someone. 407 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:18,520 Speaker 1: She needed help, A doctor, no, a friend. She picked 408 00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:20,119 Speaker 1: up the phone next to the bed and dialed the 409 00:24:20,119 --> 00:24:23,840 Speaker 1: first number that came to mind, Eric Burden. He'd know 410 00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:29,080 Speaker 1: what to do, colin ambulance, Eric told her, and then, suddenly, breathlessly, 411 00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:33,119 Speaker 1: don't do anything else, don't touch anything. He was on 412 00:24:33,160 --> 00:25:11,000 Speaker 1: his way over. Chaz Chandler stepped off the train in 413 00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:14,119 Speaker 1: Newcastle to find his father waiting for him. It was 414 00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:16,560 Speaker 1: unlike his father to meet him anywhere, let alone on 415 00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:19,639 Speaker 1: the platform of a railway station. The last time he 416 00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:21,760 Speaker 1: had even seen his father at a train station was 417 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:24,280 Speaker 1: years ago when he left home with the animals as 418 00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:27,920 Speaker 1: they got popular and outgrew their hometown. His father was 419 00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:32,199 Speaker 1: there to ceremoniously wave goodbye bitter Sweet Shirley, based on 420 00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:34,880 Speaker 1: the twinklies on his father's eye that day years ago, 421 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:40,440 Speaker 1: probably more sweet than not. Chairs had taken the trip 422 00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:42,920 Speaker 1: up north from London to visit with his family, show 423 00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:47,200 Speaker 1: off the new baby, decompressing noodle on the whole Jimmy situation. 424 00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:49,800 Speaker 1: Now that Jimmy was looking to bring Chaz back into 425 00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:53,119 Speaker 1: the fold, his father approached him quickly. As soon as 426 00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:55,399 Speaker 1: he was off the car had taken two steps on 427 00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:58,439 Speaker 1: the platform. His father was looking around nervously as if 428 00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:00,600 Speaker 1: he was being followed or was expect thing someone to 429 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:04,320 Speaker 1: jump out of the crowd. It was all very strange, Dad, 430 00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:07,480 Speaker 1: Chads shouted and the two shook hands. This is quite 431 00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:11,399 Speaker 1: the surprise. Then he saw the reporters the press. They 432 00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:14,400 Speaker 1: spotted Chatz from Afar have been prawling around the train. 433 00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:18,399 Speaker 1: As the passengers departed, they began to move in swarm. 434 00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:20,639 Speaker 1: I'm here to help you get home quick, as father said, 435 00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:23,240 Speaker 1: leading Chas and his young family away from the train 436 00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:25,400 Speaker 1: like a bomb was about to go off. Let's cut 437 00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:27,720 Speaker 1: through the crowd over here. We can probably lose them, 438 00:26:28,119 --> 00:26:30,800 Speaker 1: lose them. What the funk was this a hard day's night? 439 00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:33,560 Speaker 1: Should Chats have brought his disguise mustache with him in 440 00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:37,760 Speaker 1: oversize a newspaper to hide his face behind. Just what 441 00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:40,560 Speaker 1: exactly was going on? Why was his father there to 442 00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:43,400 Speaker 1: rescue him from reporters, Why were the reporters even there 443 00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:45,800 Speaker 1: at all? And why did it suddenly feel like this 444 00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:48,520 Speaker 1: visit the Newcastle was not going to be anything like 445 00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:52,159 Speaker 1: what he had expected. Chas his father could tell that 446 00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:55,520 Speaker 1: Chas had no idea zero. He was completely in the dark. 447 00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:59,399 Speaker 1: Had no one told him? Did he not know? Jesus 448 00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:01,880 Speaker 1: Chas his father stopped in the middle of the crowd 449 00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:05,640 Speaker 1: of people all going this way, and that Jimmie Hendricks 450 00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:10,440 Speaker 1: is dead. The doctors on duty at St Mary Abbott's 451 00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:14,520 Speaker 1: Hospital in Kensington declared Jimmie Hendricks dead on arrival. His 452 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:17,280 Speaker 1: body lay on the table in the emergency room as 453 00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:19,960 Speaker 1: still as it had been in Monica's apartment, as still 454 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:23,080 Speaker 1: in lifeless as his body had ever been. The attending 455 00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:26,600 Speaker 1: doctors attempted to resuscitate Jimmy inside the hospital, but they 456 00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:30,320 Speaker 1: were just going through the motions following protocol. This wasn't 457 00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:33,240 Speaker 1: their first dead body rodeo. They knew a long gone 458 00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:36,320 Speaker 1: corpse when they saw one. They called it Time of 459 00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:45,720 Speaker 1: Death forty five in the afternoon Friday, September eighteen. On 460 00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:48,320 Speaker 1: Monday of the following week, Eric Burden went on the 461 00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:51,800 Speaker 1: BBC television talk show Twenty four Hours with Jimmy's final 462 00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:54,960 Speaker 1: lyrics to the story of Life still haunting his head. 463 00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:57,560 Speaker 1: He told the interviewer that it was clear that Jimmy 464 00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:00,360 Speaker 1: had taken his own life. He had swallowed way too 465 00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:03,280 Speaker 1: many of Monica's sleeping pills after writing a thinly veiled 466 00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:07,560 Speaker 1: suicide note that doubled his song lyrics. Warner Brothers, Jimmy's 467 00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:10,840 Speaker 1: record label was having none of that suicide wrap. They 468 00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:13,480 Speaker 1: had a life insurance policy on Jimmy's life for two 469 00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:18,080 Speaker 1: million dollars, standard operating procedure for labels ever since Otis 470 00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:21,960 Speaker 1: Reading had died in a plane crash in if the 471 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:25,280 Speaker 1: insurance company thought that his death was a deliberate suicide. 472 00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:28,320 Speaker 1: That meant the policy was null and void and warners 473 00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:34,399 Speaker 1: wouldn't see any of that money. Eric was leading the 474 00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:37,119 Speaker 1: television studios after the interview and was stopped by a 475 00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:40,120 Speaker 1: record executive in the hallway. They got to him that fast, 476 00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:42,840 Speaker 1: pushed him up against the wall, right in his face, 477 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:47,120 Speaker 1: hot breath, delivering fiery words up close and personal. In 478 00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:51,440 Speaker 1: no uncertain terms, the exact threatened Eric's career, his livelihood. 479 00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:53,440 Speaker 1: If he was going to go on live TV and 480 00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:57,200 Speaker 1: spoke conspiratorial ship stirring lies, he would find himself without 481 00:28:57,240 --> 00:29:00,080 Speaker 1: a goddamn career. He would spill the fucking wine and 482 00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:02,720 Speaker 1: no more. And who else had a two million dollar 483 00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:06,960 Speaker 1: life insurance policy on Jimmie Hendricks None other than Michael Jeffrey. 484 00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:10,440 Speaker 1: So what the hell happened? How did Jimmy Hendricks, the 485 00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:13,240 Speaker 1: greatest guitar player in the world, wind up dead in 486 00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:16,719 Speaker 1: a London flat at the age of just as he 487 00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:19,720 Speaker 1: was getting his ship together to make his next major reinvention. 488 00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:22,960 Speaker 1: Did he really chug a lethal handful of sleeping pills? 489 00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:25,120 Speaker 1: Did he think he was taking less than he did 490 00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:27,880 Speaker 1: with the song lyrics a clue. Did he take his 491 00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:30,680 Speaker 1: own life or did Michael Jeffrey have something to do 492 00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:33,560 Speaker 1: with it? Was Jimmy Worth more dead than alive to 493 00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:37,320 Speaker 1: the manager who had over extended himself with mob money. 494 00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:40,320 Speaker 1: Did Jeffrey call in this goon squad to office prize 495 00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:44,200 Speaker 1: Star for only morning hours? Or was it the first responders? 496 00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:47,440 Speaker 1: Did they really bypass a closer hospital in order to 497 00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:51,760 Speaker 1: delay their arrival? The conservative racist ambulance drivers refused to 498 00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:54,160 Speaker 1: revive him and let him die as they merrily made 499 00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:57,360 Speaker 1: their way to the hospital. The answers to some of 500 00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:00,560 Speaker 1: these questions lay in the testimony of others, people who 501 00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:04,200 Speaker 1: were there, people like James Tappy Wright, a longtime roading 502 00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:07,920 Speaker 1: and road warrior, who one night was told the deep 503 00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:15,200 Speaker 1: dark secret that he wished he had never heard. I'm 504 00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:33,080 Speaker 1: Jake Brennan. This is the Seven Clus Club is scored 505 00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:36,440 Speaker 1: and co written by me Jake Brennan. Zeth Lundie is 506 00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:40,160 Speaker 1: the lead writer, editor and co producer. Then Club is 507 00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:43,680 Speaker 1: mixed and engineered by Sean Kleen and Matt Bowden, both 508 00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:46,680 Speaker 1: of whom led their considerable music talent to the scoring 509 00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:50,120 Speaker 1: of the series, as well additional music and score elements 510 00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:53,960 Speaker 1: by Ryan Spraker. The Club is produced by myself for 511 00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:57,760 Speaker 1: Double Elvis in partnership with I Heart Radio. Sources for 512 00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:00,640 Speaker 1: this episode are available at Double Elvis dot com on 513 00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:04,080 Speaker 1: the twenty seven Club series page. The twenty seven Club 514 00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:08,400 Speaker 1: is released weekly every Thursday. Season one features twelve episodes 515 00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:11,520 Speaker 1: on Jimmy hendricks In. 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