LONDON -- A London apartment that Jimi Hendrix lived in is opening to the public as part of an exhibition marking the 40th anniversary of his death.
Hendrix moved into the top floor of 23 Brook Street with his English girlfriend, Kathy Etchingham, in 1968, two years after he came to London as a young, ambitious guitarist. The apartment was his home for long periods of time while he played gigs in venues across the capital.
For 12 days starting Thursday, visitors can tour the rooms in which Hendrix lived, wrote and entertained his friends. Organizers of the exhibition say all tickets to the apartment tours have sold out in advance.
People walk past a Georgian house, turned into a museum where composer George Frideric Handel lived, where an exhibition devoted to Jimi Hendrix is being held, in central London. They were both immigrants in Britain who changed the face of music, one with a harpsichord and a composer's pen, the other with an electric guitar. George Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix also shared an address, living 200 years apart in adjoining 18th-century London houses. Now, 40 years after Hendrix's death, a new exhibition about his London years brings these two unlikely neighbors together. Handel lived at 25 Brook Street, a Georgian house in the tony Mayfair area for 36 years until his death in 1759. The museum devoted to his life uses the adjoining upstairs apartment where Hendrix lived as offices. \ AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis
Deputy Director of the museum, Martin Wyatt poses with a Jimi Hendrix's orange velvet jacket in preparation for display in an exhibition 'Hendrix in Britain'. Hendrix bought the jacket in 1967 from the British designer Dandie Fashions and wore it during his performance in Dec. 1967 at City Hall in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. AP Photo/Sang Tan
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Museum employee Ralf Sternad poses with Jimi Hendrix's 'Westerner' hat. AP Photo/Sang Tan
Marketing manager of the museum Gemma Morris poses with Jimi Hendrix's 'Westerner' hat. AP Photo/Sang Tan
A Gibson Flying V guitar that Hendrix played at the Isle of Wight festival in Aug. 1970, displayed at the exhibit. AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis
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A photograph of late US musician Jimi Hendrix, along with his girlfriend Kathy Etchingham, decorates an office of the Handel House Museum, in what used to be the star's bedroom when he was living in the house during the late 1960s. AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis
A self portrait by Hendrix, displayed at an exhibition in what used to be the star's bedroom when he was living in the house during the late 1960s. AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis
The orange velvet jacket and a black Westerner hat. AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis
A Handel House Museum worker holds a photograph of Hendrix, showing the exact location of what used to be the star's bedroom, when he was living in the house during the late 1960s. AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis
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