Hailed for its astounding portrait of Jimi Hendrix, Philip Normans Wild Thing has become the definitive biography of rocks most outrageousand tragicgenius.Today, Jimi Hendrix (19421970) is celebrated as the greatest rock guitarist of all time. But before he was setting guitars and the world aflame, James Marshall Hendrix was a shy kid in Seattle, plucking at a broken ukulele. Bringing Hendrixs story to vivid life against the backdrop of midcentury rock, and interweaving new interviews with friends, lovers, bandmates, and his family, Wild Thing vividly reconstructs Hendrixs remarkable career, from playing segregated clubs on the Chitlin Circuit to achieving stardom in Swinging London.
