Hendrix opening for The Monkees in ‘67.

We came for the beards, garish outfits and furry guitars, we left with a head full of the greatest riffs to have blessed a fretboard since Jimi departed our galaxy.

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Muhammad has become the most popular name for newborn boys in the UK.

PICNIC PARTICULARS: The programmers at Electric Picnic have been doing their stuff for quite a few years, so hopefully the mellow tones of Portishead won’t jar with the exuberance of the Saturday mainstage crowd at 10.30pm.

Photographs of rock musician Noel Redding — never before released — opening for Jimi Hendrix in a US concert in the 1960s have been donated to a West Cork pub.

Rockers Biffy Clyro have been unveiled as the first headliners for next year’s Isle of Wight Festival with Under Control singer Calvin Harris also announced.

Fans of the late trumpet and guitar masters have long known that Miles Davis and Jimi Hendrix had been making plans to record together in the year before Hendrix’s sudden death in 1970.

Tomorrow marks the 10th anniversary of the death of Noel Redding, the Jimi Hendrix Experience bassist who came to call West Cork his home, writes Noel Baker

The best Jimi Hendrix cover you'll hear today.

Henry McCullough is one of Ireland’s great musicians. He was the only Irishman to play Woodstock, as a member of Joe Cocker’s Grease Band.

The BBC has apologised after it followed a radio news report on the trial of Paralympic star Oscar Pistorius with a song about a man shooting his girlfriend.

Bob Geldof is to be reunited with the Boomtown Rats for the first time in more than 25 years at a UK festival this summer.

Leonard Cohen’s life is ultimately a story of enlightenment and redemption, says Richard Fitzpatrick

A biopic about Jimi Hendrix will not include any songs written by the legendary rocker.

MUSIC NEWS: Nasty ravers kill innocent animals?

Ireland’s poor record at reaching for the Under-17 European Championship finals continues after this season’s contingent were eliminated on Saturday with a game to spare.

Danny O'Donoghue, lead singer with Irish band The Script, has landed a job as one of the judges on 'The Voice UK'.

LEGENDARY musician Jimi Hendrix has been named the greatest guitar player in history by Rolling Stone magazine.

Legendary musician Jimi Hendrix has been named the greatest guitar player in history by Rolling Stone magazine.

Jimi Hendrix's estate has released his first ever mobile application.

AMY WINEHOUSE released only two albums in her life, which, combined, sold in excess of 12 million copies, won countless awards and sparked a retro soul movement.

Comedian and former drug addict Russell Brand today paid a lengthy written tribute to Amy Winehouse, saying addiction should be treated as a potentially fatal disease.

A London hotel, famed as the last known address of Jimi Hendrix, will open up a shrine to the guitar guru today to mark the 40th anniversary of his death.

Katy Perry wishes she was Jimi Hendrix’s daughter.

Music fans will be able to explore Jimi Hendrix’s UK home when an exhibition opens to commemorate the 40th anniversary of his death, it was revealed today.

A WOMAN known for singing through a PA system at a branch of Tesco has been shortlisted for this year’s Turner Prize.

Jimi Hendrix’s 'Voodoo Child' was today named the greatest guitar riff of all time, more than 40 years after he first recorded the classic cosmic jam.

ROCK legend Jimi Hendrix’s first recording contract worth $1 and erotic audio and video tapes sent by Madonna to her old bodyguard have gone on sale in an online auction.

SO the king of pop Michael Jackson has departed abruptly liked so many other high-octane pop/rock performers – Dean, Presley, Holly, Orbison, Darin, Joplin, Moon, Morrison, Hendrix, Lennon, Carpenter, Cobain, Darin, Mercury, Hutchence, etc, etc.

THE childhood home where Jimi Hendrix is said to have first discovered music has been dismantled after eight years of preservation efforts failed.

Chris Brown may have been the big winner, but it was Kanye West’s night at the American Music Awards.

The first guitar set alight on stage by rock legend Jimi Hendrix has been sold at auction for £280,000 (€345,688).

Rock legend Jimi Hendrix has become the latest musician to appear in video game 'Guitar Hero'.

Celine Dion is responsible for the world’s worst cover song, music experts said today.

A vintage sex tape purported to feature late guitar great Jimi Hendrix has been branded a fake by the company which owns the copyright to his music.

An adult entertainment company is releasing a sex tape allegedly starring Jimi Hendrix.

Gnarls Barkley star Cee-Lo Green has acquired the rights to release a handful of rare Jimi Hendrix material.

Jimi Hendrix's estate has won $900,000 (€66,700) in a four year-long court battle over the illegal sale of lost concert recordings featuring the guitar great.

Bono’s iconic Armani shades, a Jimi Hendrix guitar and a saxophone signed by former US President Bill Clinton are just some of the 200 pieces of music memorabilia being auctioned off for charity this month.

A recording of the Welsh anthem Land of my Fathers supposedly performed by Jimi Hendrix during the 1970s has been exposed as a hoax.