Excerpt from the book, Jimi Hendrix by Sharon Lawrence:

This is a description of Newark concert the day that Martin Luther King Jr. was shot.

“Jimi came on very quietly to enormous applause. Then he said softly into the microphone, ‘This number is for a friend of mine.’ He then began an improvisation that had a beauty that was simply appalling. Immediately everyone knew that the friend was Martin Luther King Jr., and this music somehow seemed to convey all the agony of the black peopl... read more