Johnny Allen Hendrix was born to James Allen "Al" Hendrix and Lucille Jeter in Seattle, Washington on 27th November, 1942. For much of his infant life, his father was absent due to serving with the military in France until discharge on September 1st, 1945. Upon his return Johnny Allen's name was changed legally to James Marshall in 1946. Aged 9 James Marshall saw his parent's get divorced after several years of troubled marriage, which affected him profoundly. His father won rights to custody. Thereafter James Marshal was raised along with younger siblings Leon, Joseph, Kathy and Pamela under the strict upbringing of their paternal grandmother in Vancouver.
Despite a life that saw parents getting divorced and his mother dying in 1959, he was a successful student at junior school in Washington. Here he passed his leaving exams with good results. This aside, he was known to have socialised among kids with mixed cultural backgrounds; African, European and Asian. He was exposed to different styles of music from various parts of the world. It was also around this time that he bought his first guitar and began learning songs by B.B. King and Muddy Waters among others, as is stated by The Famous People website's biography, Jimi Hendrix Biography - Jimmy Hendrix Childhood, Life & Timeline (2014). Soon after learning guitar he found himself playing various gigs in the local area, his first being in the Temple de Hirsch, a synagogue in Seattle. It wasn’t long before he found himself in more formal line-ups such as the Velvetones, then the Rocking Kings and eventually, Birdland. It was here that he learned many of his onstage tricks and crafted his showmanship which he would later become revered and immortalised in memory for as a frontman i...
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...chedelic movement during the 1960’s and his image made him an icon in the UK whereas in the US he was perceived as too outlandish initially but he helped spearhead the more flamboyant dress sense of bellbottoms, floral shirts, flamboyant colours, floral and paisley patterns that is commonly associated with the 1960’s and 1970’s.
Politically, Hendrix always took an anti-war stance, so much so that he performed the Star Spangled Banner at every live show for over a year in protest of the Vietnam War, and most famously at Woodstock in 1969, and continuing to play it in the southern states while touring despite threats. It was perhaps this contempt and also the lack of recognition that helped Jimi to feel more at home in the UK than in America. But also the more accepting culture in the UK could have motivated Jimi to want a change for the better in American society.
Johnny Cash was born in Kingsland, Arkansas on February 26, 1932 (Enslow 19). He began to take an interest to music when his father bought a radio. His mother loved listening to music and his mother and Johnny would sing songs all throughout the house. Taught by his mother and childhood friend, he learned to play guitar (Enslow 19). Working hard and practicing, he became very good at guitar and singing. However, he grew up through the Great Depression and this was very difficult for him and his family. In Edward Enslow’s “The Man in Black” Johnny Cash states, “We were very poor, and I almost died of starvation as a child.” This quote shows how life was a struggle for Cash in his early life. Facing all the many challenges was difficult for him but he found a way through it. Through his older brother Jack, he was able to cope with his life growing up. Jack was a huge role model to Johnny growing up, he would teach...
They were called the Silhouettes. The Silhouettes mainly performed at small shows, giving Ritchie Valens more exposure. Bob Keane, who was one of the head of the Del-Fi record label, discovered him at one of his performances. With the help of Bob Keane, the young Ritchie Valens would have a career breakthrough. Jimi Hendrix played with the band, Rocking Kings, during his teenage years. Unfortunately he dropped out of high school and worked odd jobs while following his musical aspirations. Unlike Ritchie Valens, Jimi Hendrix decided to enlist in the United States Army, following the footsteps of his father. He still managed to find time for music, but in 1962 he was honorably discharged from the army after injuring himself during a parachute jump. After serving in the military Jimi Hendrix formed the group Jimmy James and the Blue Flames. The bank performed shows around the New York City’s neighborhoods. After being signing a contract with Chas Chandler, bass player of British Rock group the Animals, Jimi Hendrix moved to England, where his career would
Stevie Ray Vaughan was born in Dallas, Texas on October 3, 1954 to Jim and Martha Vaughan. Stevie Ray first got interested in the guitar around the age of eleven in 1963. By then his older brother (Jimmie Vaughan born in 1951.) had already been playing for a couple years. He taught Stevie Ray a few tricks, a couple blues chords, and minor pentatonic licks, but not much though. Stevie Ray was mostly self taught, he grew accustomed to never using his pinkie. Growing up he listened to great blues legends like the famous B.B. King, the not as famous, but close, who really didn't get the recognition he deserved, Albert King. He found their music gratifying, and admired them greatly, learning all their licks by ear, on stage he could mirror any solos they threw at him. Both Albert King and B.B. King played a very influential role in the development of Stevie Rays style. By the time he was fourteen he was already playing in Dallas blues clubs with bands like Blackbird, the Shanstones, and the Epileptic Marshmallow. Stevie Ray being so involved with his music barely had time for highschool. He dropped out in 1972.
In the 1960?s, society was changing by the minute and fashion was ?anything goes?. In the early sixties, Jackie Kennedy influenced fashion with her elegant, stylish outfits and her trademark pillbox hat. In the late sixties, the ?mod look? was popularized by go-go boots and mini-skirts, while bellbottom jeans, tie-dye shirts, long skirts and peasant dresses were worn by the hippie culture. Glance through any fashion catalog or magazine in the nineties and you will see models wearing the same fashions popularized in the late sixties. This illustrates how the 60?s contributed to today?s fashions. In the sixties, people in television, film and movies became the new socially elite and their influence had a profound impact on fashion, attitudes, and social values. In the nineties, supermodels and sports figures have joined this group. The fascination the public has with c...
The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s first album, Are You Experienced, is undeniably one of the most influential albums of all time. For a debut record, it achieved many milestones and influenced many artists, fans, and consumers alike. Are You Experienced changed music in many ways, including the way it was artistically presented and how the band used technology at that time. The record is extremely creative. Most agree that the record is timeless and will never grow old. Are You Experienced is truly the definition of an evergreen album.
Elvis Aaron Presley was born on January 8, 1935, in Tupelo, Mississippi, in a two room house that was built by his dad, Vernon. Elvis loved his parents dearly and had a very close relationship with his mom, Gladys. He also had a profound faith in God. The family had little money, but Elvis’s parents did their best to provide for him. His childhood, the height of his fame, and the unfortunate circumstances surrounding his death made him the icon of the 1950’s that he is today.
Jimi Hendrix was born in Seattle, Washington in 1942. The naive couple James Allen Ross Hendrix and Lucille Jetters eagerly welcomed Johnny Allen Hendrix into the world. Unfortunately James Hendrix was in deployed in the Army when his son arrived and as a result did not see him till he turned three (Henderson). Hendrix’s mother was inexperienced alone and not prepared for motherhood. So as a child Hendrix moved from family member to family member at a very young age (Notable Black American Men). Among the numerous family members he lived with were his paternal grandparents. Nora and Ross Hendrix took in Hendrix and his little brother...
The British had discovered him -- give them credit there. Like Faulkner and the French, it took another country to recognize this quintessentially American artist. Born in Seattle, Washington, Hendrix was a mix of African, Cherokee and Irish blood. The product of a broken home, his father had removed him from his teenaged mother's care at age three. Jimi was brought up by relatives when Al was away, and in later life Hendrix was opposed to marriage. More telling he drifted in and out of romantic relationships in a way that fit the mores of the nineteen sixties, but suggested a deeper anxiety. The female figures in his lyrics are either the evasive, angelic wanderers of songs such as Little Wing, or the dangerous temptress' of Dolly Dagger and Foxy Lady. He took up the guitar at thirteen, dropped out of high school at 17, and then joined the 101st Airborne. He became a paratrooper and jumped 26 times before breaking his ankle on his last attempt. It was just as well. An honorable discharge kept him away from Vietnam, and he had quickly come to understand that the army was not a place sympathetic to guitarists. Billy Cox, his friend, bass player and fellow serviceman recalls that his nickname in those years was "Marbles," a tribute to the fact that Hendrix would walk down city streets playing an unplugged electric guitar. He was honing his chops; steeping himself in the native music of the south. The blues became his backbone, at a time when slicker and more popular Moto...
James Marshall Hendrix was born on November 27, 1942 in Seattle Washington. James faced a somewhat difficult childhood as he was faced with many obstacles. His mother named him John Allen Hendrix at birth and played a dominant role in the early years of his life. His father, Al Hendrix, was busy fighting in WWII at the time. In 1943, young James' mother became sick with alcoholism and was sent into a rehab center. James was then sent to live with his grandparents in Berkely, California. After two difficult years of living with his relatives, his father returned from WWII and renamed Johnny to James Marshall Hendrix. His father quickly divorced his alcoholic mother who later died in 1958. Years passed and Jimi continued living with his father and attending grade school. His father introduced him to the guitar at age 13 and taught him how to play. James grew fond of playing but never pursued it as a child. In 1959, Jimi was expelled from high school because of poor behavior. With nothing to do, Hendrix got into trouble with the law for stealing a car with his friends. He was given the choice of spending two years in jail or enlisting in the army. Ji...
Born November 27, 1942 as Johnny Allen Hendrix (Who later changed it to Jimi Hendrix) in the town of Seattle, Washington. There, he lived with his mother
Johnny Cash was born February 26, 1932. His parents called him J.R. because they couldn’t settle on the name of John or Ray so they called him JR. His father was a poor farmer who moved the family several times while Johnny Cash was a child. This made for a lot of instability in his younger years. His father farmed and when the farms were not doing so well in the beginning of the 30’s his father packed his family up and moved them to Dyess County in northeastern Arkansas. There was government assistance there to be had. The government provided Johnny’s family with a house, barn and some farm land. This was so that their family could raise cotton. His family stayed there and made a home finally.
According to wikipedia Johnny Cash was born in kingsland arkansas, though he was never given a real name, he was called J.r while a child, then when he got older people called him Johnny.When he turned five Johnny helped out on his fathers farm with his mom, dad, and older brother.Johnny had a rough childhood, not only the untimely death of his brother, but his abusive father made things worse.Johnnyjoined the air force as a radio operator in Landsberg am Lech, Germany.where he joined a band called the Landsberg Barbarians.afterhis term he married Vivian Liberto and moved to Memphis where he was a radio salesman, and studied to be a radio announser. Cash where for a record deal at sun records, where he sung mostly gospil, and Sam Phillips the owner of sun records said " go home and sin, then come back with a song I can sell.", cash won over sun records and relese...
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What comes to mind when you hear Rock ‘n’ Roll? It is the upbeat tempo with drums beating a harmonic tune, the electrifying sound of guitars and of course the singers, making music that connects to your emotions.
1960s was significant decade for the fashion world in UK. Moreover it also was a remarkable changed with dressing styles under the circle of mini to maxi.