The 27 club is a “real phenomenon” that makes the deaths of celebrities more famous, a study has found. When rock stars Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and the Jim Morrison died ...

It was also around this time May caught a show by another newcomer on the London scene who would prove influential to him: Jimi Hendrix. “I thought after seeing [Clapton and Beck], I'd seen it all.

— Brian May It was also around this time May caught a show by another newcomer on the London scene who would prove influential to him: Jimi Hendrix.

“You had Clapton and Beck, but Jimi blew everybody’s socks off!”: Foreigner's Mick Jones remembers Hendrix Story by Paul Elliott • 1w ...

Is the 27 Club real? The origin of the 27 Club dates back to the early 1970s, following the deaths of Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison – all at age 27, within a span of two ...

The four musicians involved in the 'statistically improbable' event include Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin, who all died aged 27 between 1969 and 1971.

— Brian May Pete Townshend has attested to that. The Who guitarist told Guitar Player how Hendrix’s arrival in London in 1966 devastated his confidence as a guitarist.

I’d watch Jimi every night from the side of the stage, and I was amazed. You had Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck and all these great guitar players, but Jimi blew everybody’s socks off!” ...