Lot 77
  • 77

The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description

  • Two Life Magazine portrait photographs, 1968, inscribed by Jimi Hendrix and Noel Redding
  • paper
machine-print photographs by Linda Eastman (346 x 264mm.), used as a magazine spread from Life magazine in 1968, the right-hand portrait of Jimi Hendrix, the left-hand of Noel Redding, both performing on stage, each signed and inscribed with affectionate messages to Redding’s mother Margaret,  Hendrix writing "Love and happiness to you forever" and signing unusually "Your ‘Son’ Jimi Hendrix" and the inscription additionally annotated with a heart), Redding writing "To Mum love Noel xxx 22nd May 68" in black ballpoint, each photograph with four folds (one central horizontal fold and three diagonal folds) where photos originally folded for postage, some light creasing, some small tears and losses to one side where photos removed from magazine, Hendrix photo with loss at lower left corner and central fold with 34mm. tear, Redding photograph with 130mm. tear to central diagonal fold

Literature

Noel Redding and Carol Appleby, Are You Experienced? - The Inside Story of The Jimi Hendrix Experience (1996), pp.36-37

Catalogue Note

Accompanying letters from Margaret and Noel Redding and the vendor state that Hendrix and Redding folded and posted these photographs to Noel’s mother in England from the USA where they were on tour at the time of signing in 1968. Margaret kept them folded in a drawer until she parted with them in 1999. Two accompanying photographs show Margaret with the photographs in her living room on that occasion.  

In his autobiography, Noel Redding described how he enjoyed sharing his family with Hendrix. The first time he took him back to his mother’s house in Kent was just after midnight on New Year’s Day 1967. It was a cold damp night and the band had just finished a New Year’s Eve gig in Folkestone before racing back to Redding’s family home. His mother Margaret had a blazing fire going which Hendrix particularly enjoyed. Redding recalled: "Mum always felt that the words to 'Fire' came from that night..." Margaret Redding and Jimi grew to be very fond of each other. Redding recalled "Mum loved Jimi’s reserved, polite and shy manner. And Jimi took to Mum, later signing a photo for her with "From Your Son, Jimi"".