Jimi Hendrix, proto-reggae artist? The most famous dead guitar innovator in rock history, Hendrix died at the age of 27 in September 1970. That was shortly after the Jamaican ska and rock-steady styles began to give way to reggae, but a few years before Jimmy Cliff starred in the 1972 movie "The...
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:30PM on April 3, 2018