At 16 years old, self-taught guitarist James Marshall Hendrix played his first live show at Temple De Hirsch Sinai Synagogue in Seattle on February 20, 1959, with the electric guitar he'd only been ...

SEATTLE -- The one-time boyhood home of legendary rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix has been spared demolition and moved to a new location, the head of the James Marshall Hendrix Foundation said Tuesday.

"He was born Johnny Allen Hendrix. But when his father, Al, returned from World War II and saw his son for the first time, he renamed him James Marshall Hendrix." So begins "Becoming Jimi Hendrix" in ...