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village inLancashire - proper noun A
habitational surname .
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Examples
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"A short while later," recalls Altham, "Chas took me to hear him at the Bag O'Nails club [in Soho] for one of his first proper gigs, turned to me and said, 'What'ya think?'
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"'Come down to the Scotch,' Chas told me the day Jimi arrived and hear what I found in New York," recalls Altham.
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Everyone knows that Hendrix had hundreds of women, often concurrently – but that is not as interesting as the fact that, says Altham, "Kathy Etchingham was the love of his life".
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"The performers were just your mates who played guitars," recalls Altham.
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There are so many accounts of exactly what happened next, but all converge on the fact that he had drunk a fair amount, taken some kind of amphetamines ( "Black bombers, I think, given to him by Devon Wilson," surmises Altham) and some of Danneman's Vesparax sleeping pills, not knowing their strength.
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"People [here] felt a certain affinity with the blues, music which added a bit of colour to grey life," Altham continues.
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(To mark the anniversary, the Cumberland has designed and decorated these rooms in a swirl of colour, stocked it with Hendrix music and called it the Hendrix Suite, in which people can stay.) "There were two women in the room," recalls Altham.
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Altham borrowed a lighter from Gary – the third Walker brother and drummer – and that night, at the Astoria theatre in central London, Hendrix set his guitar ablaze for the first time.
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On the tape, Hendrix laughs and jokes; he tells Altham about plans to re-form the Experience and tour England again.
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"One of the security guards said, 'Why are you waving it around your head?'" recalls Altham.
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