In pictures: Handel and Hendrix in London

Here, we bring you some of the highlights… 

Hendrix’s blue plaque at 23 Brook Street, where there is a new permanent exhibition examining his life in London.

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Jimi Hendrix pictured at his Mayfair flat in 1969. The flat was found by his girlfriend, Kathy Etchingham, from an advert in one of the London evening newspapers in 1968. Etchingham says Hendrix called it “my first real home of my own”.

^{(Barrie Wentzell)}

Brook Street, where Hendrix and Handel lived, wrote and played in neighbouring buildings, 240 years apart. Blue plaques for the two musicians can be seen on the front of the two houses. 

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The Handel rehearsal and performance room, in the house where the composer lived from 1723 until his death in 1759.

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Handel’s restored bedroom at 25 Brook Street.

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Jimi Hendrix’s bedroom in the top-floor flat at 23 Brook Street, carefully restored to the way it was when he lived there in 1969. Hendrix spent some time decorating the flat to his own taste, including purchasing curtains and cushions from the nearby John Lewis department store, as well as ornaments and knickknacks from Portobello Road market and elsewhere.

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Handel’s composition room.

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Jimi Hendrix at 23 Brook Street, 7 January 1969. 

^{(Richard Keith Wolff)}

Jimi Hendrix’s epiphone FT79 acoustic guitar, on display at ‘Handel and Hendrix in London’. 

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Jimi Hendrix pictured at 23 Brook Street, 1969. 

^{(Barrie Wentzell)}
 

‘Handel and Hendrix in London’ is now open to the public. To find out more, click here.