Thursday, September 15, 2005

Entertainment: Hendrix boyhood home saved

Eurweb reports that the head of the James Marshall Hendrix Foundation, has said that the boyhood home of Jimi Hendrix has been spared demolition and moved to a to a mobile home park in Renton, south of Seattle - across the street from the cemetery where Hendrix is buried.

The graffiti covered two bedroom house in one of Seattle's traditionally African-American neighbourhoods was the only home ever owned by the Hendrix family during Jimi's childhood.