He is unquestionably one of the greatest, if not the greatest electric guitarist. He was born John Allen on November 27, 1942. But we obviously know him as Jimmy Hendrix.
The left-hander who made his guitar moan, cry and howl like no one else did not live very long, barely 27 years, before dying of a drug overdose, in London, on the threshold of the 1970s. who said he came from the planet Mars and a dazzling international career. Before that, a poor and chaotic childhood and adolescence.
“By telling this childhood, in this dysfunctional family at the height of misery, it is a question of finding the springs of creativity and genius. How is built a will to move forward, a capacity for resilience, a desire to become someone ‘one who revolutionized the music of his time.”
Screenwriter Jean-Michel Dupontat franceinfo
Cosmic, electric, dreamlike, psychedelic. The authors worked around these four key words. In the drawing, Mezzo kneads the thick ink with as much delight and rage as Hendrix tweaked his six-string in front of his amp. Each box oozes blues, rock and desire. From everything percolates a black lyricism, that of the America of the 1960s.
kiss the skypublished by Glénat… And we are already impatiently awaiting the second volume which will talk about the fall of the guitar-hero, as rapid and spectacular as his rise was.