André Benjamin stars in a chronicle of Jimi Hendrix's rise to fame.
by J.R. Jones
In a scene from the new biopic Jimi: All Is By My Side, a relatively unknown Jimi Hendrix, talking to someone on a pay phone at the London rock club the Bag O' Nails, jealously watches his British girlfriend leave with another man and, when she returns, beats her to the floor with the telephone receiver. The scene has ignited a firestorm of controversy: Kathy Etchingham, the woman in question, has called it a complete fabrication, and Charles R. Cross, author of Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix, has said the incident never happened, despite the fact that something very close to it appears in his own book.…[ Read more ]