SPIEGEL:
On September 18, 1970 at 11:18 a.m., the skating instructor Monika Dannemann called the emergency number in Notting Hill, West London.
Next to her in the Samarkand Hotel lay Jimi Hendrix.
The doctors could only determine his death.
He had swallowed nine tablets of the heavy sleeping pill Vesparax.
That was too much.
How did the musician get on the 27-year-old blonde from Düsseldorf?
Friedrich:
Your brother took Monika Dannemann with him when Jimi Hendrix gave a concert in Düsseldorf on January 12, 1969.
She liked the music right away, only she thought he was an aloof rock star.
She attended the concert in Cologne two days later, but did not go to the hotel room with him.
The relationship developed slowly.
She wasn't a groupie.
To person
Wolfgang Friedrich,
61, from Dusslingen trains sports trainers and writes specialist books on the nutrition of athletes.
As a 15-year-old, he had a great passion for Jimi Hendrix.
Since then he has been collecting recordings and literature and writing for Jimi Hendrix fanzines.
SPIEGEL:
Jimi Hendrix was a pretty lonely person throughout his life and rarely happy as a child.
Friedrich:
He didn't have a really nice childhood in Seattle.
Before he was born, his father was drafted into the army at 23 and fought in World War II.
His mother was only 17 years old at the time, drove around and pushed him away to relatives.
His parents drank a lot and kept arguing.
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