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☆ Jimi Hendrix unreleased tracks, dry-cleaning bills and payslips to go on sale
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-13 | by ( Amarachi Orie | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Unreleased Jimi Hendrix songs are among an array of memorabilia belonging to the late musician that is set to go up for auction next month. “It’s an incredible collection that not only reflects the personal life of Jimi Hendrix but also transports you back to a pivotal moment in music history,” he added. A payslip for Hendrix and his bandmates are among the collection of his personal items up for auction in November. The live-streamed London auction will take place on November 15 and will include more than 400 lots of music memorabilia, according to Propstar’s website. By the end of that year, his band Jimi Hendrix Experience had released the hit song “Hey Joe,” followed by an influential first album the following year.

Persons: Jimi Hendrix, Hendrix, Mark Hochnam, “, Patricia “ Trixie ” Sullivan, Mike Jeffery, Michael Jackson, John Lennon, Hendrix’s, Joe, ”, Paul McCartney Organizations: CNN, Entertainment, Propstore, Oasis, California’s Monterey, Pop Locations: New York City, England, Seattle

That opportunistic vocalist was named Otis Redding, who received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Friday. Jimmy Jam, a music producer and the master of ceremonies for the unveiling of the star, lauded Redding as legendary. Santiago started off by thanking Zelma Redding, Otis Redding's wife, who attended the ceremony. But this means the world, that here we are, traveling all the way to the West Coast for this honor that will live on forever as the legacy of Otis Redding does," Redding-Andrews said. “I am not a blues singer or an R&B singer,” Redding once said.

Persons: Johnny Jenkins, Jenkins, Otis Redding, Jimmy Jam, Redding, Jam, Michael Santiago, Mike, Santiago, Zelma Redding, Otis Redding's, Martin, Coretta, Malcolm, Betty, Otis, Coretta Scott King, Betty Shabazz, Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X, Karla Redding, Redding's, “, ‘, ’ ”, Andrews, ”, Rolling, Little Richard’s, Carla Thomas, Phil Walden, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, “ Otis Redding, Bill Graham, ” Redding Organizations: Stax Records, Stax, Hollywood, Rolling Stone, Memphis DJ, Fillmore, Monterey Pop Festival Locations: Memphis, Andrews, West, Macon , Georgia, Georgia, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Sausalito, Madison, Wis, Monterey

☆ Cass Elliot’s Death Spawned a Horrible Myth. She Deserves Better.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-09 | by ( Lindsay Zoladz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Onstage with her group the Mamas & the Papas at the Monterey International Pop Festival in June 1967, Cass Elliot, the grand doyenne of the Laurel Canyon scene, bantered with the timing of a vaudeville comedian. “Somebody asked me today when I was going to have the baby, that’s funny,” she said, rolling her eyes. The unspoken punchline — if you could call it that — was that she had already given birth to a daughter six weeks earlier. July 29 is the 50th anniversary of her untimely death at 32, a tragedy that still spurs unanswerable questions. Might Elliot, who was one of Johnny Carson’s most beloved substitutes, have become the first female late-night talk show host?

Persons: Cass Elliot, “, ”, —, Owen Elliot, Kugell, ” Elliot, Elliot, Johnny Carson’s Organizations: Mamas, Monterey, Pop Festival, Sunset Locations: Laurel, Los Angeles

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