A new REELZ special reveals that the death of 60s music legend Jimi Hendrix may not have been an accident. Jimi Hendrix: A Perfect Murder? sits down with the emergency room doctor who treated the guitar hero after he was rushed to a London hospital on September 18, 1970.
Jimi Hendrix became an icon pretty early. The singer and songwriter excited audiences in the 1960s with his outrageous electric guitar playing skills and his experimental sound in songs like Purple Haze and All Along the Watchtower.
His performance at Woodstock, in 1969, cemented his place in rock ‘n’ roll history. But just over a year later Jimi Hendrix was pronounced dead. He was 27 years old.
The new documentary recounts the scene as the emergency team attempted to pump fluid out of Hendrix’s lungs; as he lay on an ambulance stretcher.
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“I couldn’t understand how much red wine was in his lungs,” Dr. Bannister says. “It was more than just somebody drowning on a glass of red wine. It was at least two or three bottles of red wine.”
Fifty years later, the real cause of Jimi Hendrix’s death remains an open case to those who believe it was a criminal act. But was the late rock star drowned as part of a murder staged to look like an accident or a suicide?
The doc digs deep and uncovers the secret history of Jimi’s manager, Mike Jeffery; who was also an alleged British spy. Also, it explores the reason he was named as a suspect in Jimi Hendrix’s death. First-hand testimony and evidence also point to another person of interest in the murder of one of the world’s greatest rock stars.
Jimi Hendrix: A Perfect Murder? will air on REELZ from Saturday, September 19
The main suspicion I have is why was Jimi’s autopsy report altered the day after his death? The initial report read massive amounts of red wine in stomach and lungs. The altered report had that sentence blocked out with a black marker and replaced with heroin. The evidence is clear he was murdered.