Showing that he’s omnipresent forty years after his death, a new documentary about Jimi Hendrix is set for release next year. Janie Hendrix, the rock icon’s sister and CEO of Experience Hendrix who look after his estate says the documentary will feature footage of his ‘homecoming’ show with the Jimi Hendrix Experience at London’s Royal Albert Hall.

She explains: “It’s kind of a day in the life of Jimi, how we put it together. There were about four cameras that followed Jimi and the guys around in Europe and filmed the two concerts at the Royal Albert Hall, as well as them coming off trains, planes and automobiles, signing autographs, Jimi backstage getting ready, in his apartment doing little apartment jams with his friends and then later playing the Speakeasy. It’s not an actor playing Jimi; it’s Jimi, and he really does forget the cameras are rolling and you see those sides of him, the stage and the sweetness with different girlfriends — there’s several that are in the film — and how he was around friends and how he was really into listening to the (tape of) the night before’s performance.”

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