1967: At home with Hendrix

Hendrix lived in the ground floor and basement apartment at 34 Montagu Square, Marylebone, London - subletting it from Beatles’s drummer Ringo Starr from Dec. 196d. He lived with his girlfriend, Kathy Etchingham, and his manager, Chas Chandler, and Chandler’s girlfriend, Lotta Null. The monthly rent was £30.

Hendrix wrote ‘The Wind Cries Mary’ at the apartment, following an argument he had with Kathy (her middle name was Mary) over her ability to cook. Ringo evicted Hendrix for throwing whitewash over the walls while on an acid trip. John Lennon later rented the apartment for three months in the latter half of 1968 with Yoko Ono. The cover photograph of their album Two Virgins was taken at the address.