Jimi Hendrix was murdered, according to a new book by one of his roadies.

Posted by Elizabeth Bromstein

It seems like getting a guy to choke to death on his own vomit is an odd way to kill him but that's the story James "Tappy" Wright is telling. Wright has written Rock Roadie, a book about his roadie life in the Sixties with stars that include Tina Turner and Elvis Presley (out next month). He also, obviously, worked with Jimi, who died in a London hotel in September 1970 at age 27.

In the book Wright, according to the UK Telegraph, says Jimi's manager Michael Jeffery drunkenly confessed to murdering the legendary guitarist a year after the fact.

The story is that Jeffery was worried Hendrix was preparing to find a new manager so he preemptively stuffed him full of pills and wine.

Wright writes, "I can still hear that conversation, see the man I'd known for so much of my life, his face pale, hand clutching at his glass in sudden rage."

He says Jeffery told him, "I had to do it, Tappy. You understand, don't you? I had to do it. You know damn well what I'm talking about."

Jeffery apparently said, "I was in London the night of Jimi's death and together with some old friends ...we went round to Monika's [Monika Dannemann, German figure skater and Jimi's girlfriend] hotel room, got a handful of pills and stuffed them into his mouth ...then poured a few bottles of red wine deep into his windpipe.

"I had to do it. Jimi was worth much more to me dead than alive. That son of a ***** was going to leave me. If I lost him, I'd lose everything."

Wright also claims Jeffery told him he had taken out a life insurance policy on Hendrix worth £1.2million, with Jeffery as beneficiary.

With all the mysterious rock star deaths and apocryphal tales out there, wouldn't it be something if this one turned out to be true? Also, who are these 'friends?' Because if they're still alive, it's arrest time, right?

Two years after the alleged murder, Jeffery died in a plane crash. So, he's off the hook.

Karma..............

Kat

if true, the death by vomiting/asphixiation may have been not the manner of death intended, but it was still premeditated.

the guy may have thought jimi would simply succumb to alcohol and narcotics poisoning, with cessation of breathing and stopping of the heart.

husein did it