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Friday 18th of September 1970

54 years ago



Guitarist and singer-songwriter Jimi James Marshall Hendrix born as Johnny Allen Hendrix dies of a drug overdose at the age of 28 in Samarkand Hotel, 22 Lansdowne Crescent, Notting Hill, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.


A post-mortem concluded that Hendrix aspirated his own vomit and died of asphyxia while intoxicated with barbiturates. Hendrix had taken nine Vesparax sleeping tablets, 18 times the recommended dosage.