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The Inner World of Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix, according to The Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music, was "without a doubt the most prodigiously original, inventive and influential guitarist of the rock era". He died on 18 September 1970. Monika Dannemann had been his fiancee for nearly two years; she was with him when he died.
The Inner World of Jimi Hendrix is Monika's tribute to her lost a beautifully designed, exquisitely executed gallery of her original oil paintings, inspired by Jimi's songs, and reflecting his spirit. All are reproduced in full colour, and each is accompanied by an explanatory commentary expressing some of Jimi's innermost thoughts about his music, life, death, love and spirituality as revealed by him to Monika.
In separate sections the author writes candidly, and very movingly, about her time with Jimi, their relationship, his last days, and his tragically premature death at the age of only twenty-seven. For the first time ever she discloses the full truth about the circumstances surrounding his death, and recounts in detail the distressing months that followed as the facts were continually manipulated and distorted, especially by the media.
Published to coincide with the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death, The Inner World of Jimi Hendrix also includes a sequence of previously unpublished colour photographs of Jimi, taken by Monika the day before he died.
The Inner World of Jimi Hendrix is Monika's tribute to her lost a beautifully designed, exquisitely executed gallery of her original oil paintings, inspired by Jimi's songs, and reflecting his spirit. All are reproduced in full colour, and each is accompanied by an explanatory commentary expressing some of Jimi's innermost thoughts about his music, life, death, love and spirituality as revealed by him to Monika.
In separate sections the author writes candidly, and very movingly, about her time with Jimi, their relationship, his last days, and his tragically premature death at the age of only twenty-seven. For the first time ever she discloses the full truth about the circumstances surrounding his death, and recounts in detail the distressing months that followed as the facts were continually manipulated and distorted, especially by the media.
Published to coincide with the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death, The Inner World of Jimi Hendrix also includes a sequence of previously unpublished colour photographs of Jimi, taken by Monika the day before he died.
192 pages, Hardcover
First published September 1, 1995
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November 20, 2023
The rantings of a deranged groupie fan who unfortunately was the main cause of Jimi's death.
Not worth buying or reading. Most of her writings were products of her fantasy and she was proven wrong in many things she tried to tell people.
She was a groupie who barely knew him. The fiance thing was total lies and so was her so called relationship. If you spent any time with Jimi he would tell you about how he felt about his music and what it was supposed to mean. Jimi wasn't the mess that many who write books based on tabloids talk about. Yes, he was a very independent person as well as very spiritual, and people close to him knew this as well as if anyone else asked him.
Monika was sued for slander in court before the book was finally published and she had to remove several things she said about other people. She left this world on her own accord a few days after the court ruling.
There's still several people who knew Jimi intimately and they would tell you, he would have been SHH and LHAO if he were to have read this book.
Not worth buying or reading. Most of her writings were products of her fantasy and she was proven wrong in many things she tried to tell people.
She was a groupie who barely knew him. The fiance thing was total lies and so was her so called relationship. If you spent any time with Jimi he would tell you about how he felt about his music and what it was supposed to mean. Jimi wasn't the mess that many who write books based on tabloids talk about. Yes, he was a very independent person as well as very spiritual, and people close to him knew this as well as if anyone else asked him.
Monika was sued for slander in court before the book was finally published and she had to remove several things she said about other people. She left this world on her own accord a few days after the court ruling.
There's still several people who knew Jimi intimately and they would tell you, he would have been SHH and LHAO if he were to have read this book.
December 16, 2007
While reading this book I learned how inaccurate the public personification of Jimi Hendrix really was. He was a very spiritual man who wanted his music to convey his beliefs through the energy of his music. He beleived he could change the world by opening the minds of his listeners.
The origional lyrics of his songs were actually very different than the edited versions that were published. Many of the lyrics were actually descriptions of dreams and/or astral travels that he had.
The author, his fiance, Monica Danneman, tries to convey his philosophy through her paintings witch illistrate the book. There is also a painting in it that Jimi requested she do. It was of Buddha and Jimi and was completed four years after his death.
The origional lyrics of his songs were actually very different than the edited versions that were published. Many of the lyrics were actually descriptions of dreams and/or astral travels that he had.
The author, his fiance, Monica Danneman, tries to convey his philosophy through her paintings witch illistrate the book. There is also a painting in it that Jimi requested she do. It was of Buddha and Jimi and was completed four years after his death.
December 31, 2018
If you'd really like to get to know the "real Jimi Hendrix" read this book! It reveals another side of Hendrix that public didn't know about, his passion for the spirit world, his belief in reincarnation, his psychic talents and most of all his link to the invisible world which inspired a lot of his songs.
September 19, 2008
The distortion and overall sullying of Hendrix's legacy is inexcusable; fortunately, Monika Dannemann's book clears up many incorrect preconceived "hearsay" notions regarding Hendrix and substitutes the reality of who he was as a person and a creative and passionate human being.
Jimi Hendrix's guitar prowess is widely recognized, yet it is seldom detached from his alleged "addiction" to drugs; the truth is that he saw drugs as "a weakness and nothing to be proud of" and that he understood music to be a natural high that was much realer and much more in tune with spirituality than the artificial high of drugs.
It seems petty to dwell on such a minor aspect of his life, yet the damage that the slanderous drug-addiction myth is damage that should not, by any means, be overlooked. It's not as if he had no accounts of usage at all, but he was by no means a flat-out addict.
Blah blah woof woof. Past all that drug rambling I just mindlessly indulged in (how ironic...), the reasoning behind it remains: The credibility behind Hendrix's consummate genius lies in his unfettered passion for music, and that propensity for creative output arose from a need to get a positive message out to the world. This book does an excellent job -- an unparalleled one at that -- at addressing this side of a man who is one of the most misunderstood artists of all time. Highly recommended.
Jimi Hendrix's guitar prowess is widely recognized, yet it is seldom detached from his alleged "addiction" to drugs; the truth is that he saw drugs as "a weakness and nothing to be proud of" and that he understood music to be a natural high that was much realer and much more in tune with spirituality than the artificial high of drugs.
It seems petty to dwell on such a minor aspect of his life, yet the damage that the slanderous drug-addiction myth is damage that should not, by any means, be overlooked. It's not as if he had no accounts of usage at all, but he was by no means a flat-out addict.
Blah blah woof woof. Past all that drug rambling I just mindlessly indulged in (how ironic...), the reasoning behind it remains: The credibility behind Hendrix's consummate genius lies in his unfettered passion for music, and that propensity for creative output arose from a need to get a positive message out to the world. This book does an excellent job -- an unparalleled one at that -- at addressing this side of a man who is one of the most misunderstood artists of all time. Highly recommended.
September 16, 2007
fascinating look from Hendrix's long-time partner about his ideas on life, privacy, record label challenges, ideas and art work for the future
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