In pictures: Handel and Hendrix in London

The Georgian house in London's Mayfair in which George Frideric Handel lived and composed for 36 years has long been preserved for education and live performances. Less well known is that 200 years later Jimi Hendrix lived next door to 25 Brook Street – his flat has now been renovated and opened to the public as part of a joint attraction, ‘Handel and Hendrix in London’

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Published: February 23, 2016 at 10:00 am

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”.

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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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