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Hendrix home saved from demolition

Hendrix - 35th anniversary of death on 18 September
Hendrix - 35th anniversary of death on 18 September

The house that late guitar legend Jimi Hendrix lived in as a boy has been saved from demolition and has been moved to a new location.

The two-bedroom house in Seattle was the only one ever owned by the Hendrix family during the guitarist's childhood and has been moved to a mobile home park in the city of Renton, near Seattle.

The mobile home park is across the street from where Hendrix is buried.

Hendrix's brother Leon hopes to turn the house, which had been the subject of a legal battle between the city of Seattle and the James Marshall Hendrix Foundation, into a museum and education centre.

The 35th anniversary of Hendrix's death takes place on 18 September.

A new biography of the guitarist, 'Roomful of Mirrors', by Charles R Cross, has just been published.

Cross also wrote the best-selling Kurt Cobain biography 'Heavier Than Heaven'.

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