10 Music Film Biopics Not Yet Made
#2 - Jimi Hendrix - I Dont Live Today
The second member of the morbid 27 Club, Jimi Hendrix, one of the most influential guitar players of all time, died in 1970 by asphyxiation on his own vomit it was a sad end to the life of a man who I, along with quite a few others, would consider the greatest rock n roll guitarist of all time.
Hendrix made the electric guitar into almost as big of a star as he made himself, and pioneered the use of amp feedback and the wah pedal in his shows. Hendrix was charismatic & flamboyant and his live shows are the stuff of legend he would smash and burn his guitars at the end of shows.
Conspiracy theories abound over Hendrixs death, but thankfully they havent overshadowed the legacy he left behind. His rise to fame would be a fascinating topic for a big screen biopic from his early musical beginnings in 1962 right through to his last performance in 1970 in Soho.
As you can imagine, a biopic has been long-touted with Quentin Tarantino rumoured to be attached at one point, with everyone from Laurence Fishburne to Andre 3000 via Lenny Kravitz supposedly playing Hendrix. It should and will happen eventually, so lets just hope they cast someone worthy of picking up that legendary Fender Stratocaster.
Note: Since this article was written - a high profile attempt from Paul Greengrass to make a Jimi Hendrix biopic starring Anthony Mackie failed to get the gatekeepers of the Hendrix estate's blessing and went unrealised.