10 Legendary Artists That Never Saw Their Last Music Record Come Out

When the Summer of Love was first starting to change the music world, Jimi Hendrix almost felt like a flash of light hovering over the scene. Just when you thought that he would usher in a new form of rock and roll for the next generation, Jimi's magic was cut down in its prime, overdosing on drugs in 1970 as the Vietnam War continued to rage on in the background. The musical guitar god may not have been with us, but Cry of Love was the kind of record that most of us were hoping to find after the Electric Ladyland sessions.

Coming out a few years after his death, Cry of Love tends to draw from much more mellow passages in Jimi's catalog, which makes sense seeing how a lot of these were never meant to be released to the public. Although there are a few songs that tend to pull from the R&B side of what Jimi was known for, a song like Freedom is the kind of brilliance that most of us were expecting right after his work with the Experience, finally coming into his own as a producer and using his guitar almost as a way to paint different pictures in your mind.

The hippy generation may have finally come to an end once Jimi passed away, but the songs on here were about something more than just notes on a page. Jimi had given us the blueprint for what rock and roll should be, and it was up to us to carry on the kind of magic that he put into every one of his songs.