Jimi Hendrix and me: Former girlfriend Kathy Etchingham's story - Witness

Jimi Hendrix and me: Former girlfriend Kathy Etchingham's story - Witness - BBC News

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10 жыл бұрын

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In 1966, Kathy Etchingham, a DJ and hairdresser, walked into a London nightclub and met Jimi Hendrix.
She recalls her time as Jimi Hendrix's girlfriend including the occasion they argued over mashed potatoes which inspired the rock legend to write The Wind Cries Mary.
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@BushyHairedStranger 5 жыл бұрын

Hendrix was absolutely accurate...She’s beautiful! shes held her beauty up incredibly well.

@paulablissett4447 4 жыл бұрын

Yes Kathy to this day, is very beautiful....

@robertgenier3037 3 жыл бұрын

Is u hitting on a grandma

@georgealderson4424 3 жыл бұрын

@@robertgenier3037 Maybe he's a grandpa?!😁

@charlesbatts3676 3 жыл бұрын

ITS NO WONDER JIMI HIT ON HER. WHAT A DELIGHTFUL PERSONALITY SHE HAS. I WISH KATHY COULD HAVE KEPT JIMI AWAY FROM THOSE PARASITES.

@christophercolumbus8944 2 жыл бұрын

you got a w-e too?>?

@aldonapolitano5979 Жыл бұрын

I got to see him twice. Like everyone, I've heard most (not The Wind Cries Mary story. That was great!) of the stories but hearing about his passing again still hits us with a profound sense of loss. Thanks for this post.

@TheAnarchyIsReal 5 жыл бұрын

Must be real cool to tell your grandkids that you were the coolest rockstar of the 60 and 70s girlfriend

@christophercolumbus8944 2 жыл бұрын

i would be embrased that my grandmother did it with a black for fame she is nothing but a

@thai3169 3 жыл бұрын

Getting married behind his back put him on a downward path. Had he managed to hang on to her it would have done him good, she was level headed and normal, too many around him were the opposite, like airhead Monika.

@amandajstar 4 жыл бұрын

If Jimi had said: 'I don't like it either, Kathy, and I'm going back to England with you', he'd most likely be alive today.

@paulablissett9396 5 жыл бұрын

Awwwwwwwwwwwww a lover's quarrel, they really did love each other a lot, but he did tell her he wasn't a one woman man, 3 years, that was along time, i do think, had he lived he would have coaxed her to break off her engagement with the Doctor she was engaged to.. Jimi was heart broken deep down, imo, i think besides his Strat and His Black Beauty, and his Flying V, Kathy was his next true love, and had he lived, i think he would have married her, he was making a lot of big changes in his life.. Rip Jimi, You are truly, truly missed..

@Einnor084 4 жыл бұрын

Andrew Ongais Paulaz rite. Ur wrong

@paulablissett4447 4 жыл бұрын

@@Einnor084 Why am i wrong, Ron Beck, i knew Jimi, i didn't know his whole life's history,but i knew enough to know basically, he was a good man..... So no, i'm not wrong!

@paulablissett4447 4 жыл бұрын

@Andrew Ongais Hey TROLL, I know what a muse is, were you there when Jimi was alive?

@Einnor084 4 жыл бұрын

Paula Blissett Ur only wrong, 4 never tellin me da story u said u had, BUTT wouldn't share n public. Othawise..... look again Paula.

@paulablissett4447 4 жыл бұрын

@@Einnor084 OK, SEE THAT PIC? That's me and Jimi in Feb. 1968 after his concert in Chicago .... I finally put it up.....

@warpspeed9877 3 жыл бұрын

"Well...Jimmy Hendrix wrote a song about me..." Imagine that.

@HebrewHakaishin Жыл бұрын

Thank You Kathy Etchingham, and the UK for adopting Jimi Hendrix and keeping his life and music alive!

@jonathanmorgan3377 4 жыл бұрын

Read her book, "Through Gypsy Eyes"!

@harryjohnson8605 3 жыл бұрын

You can still see the hurt in her. What could have been if had live

@PULSEJETVALVE 10 жыл бұрын

Now,This is something! Wind Criies Mary!!!

@thedude4795 8 жыл бұрын

+PULSEJETVALVE You would love her book, she smashed the dish with mashed tatties, and didnt come back the whole night so jimi wrote "A broom is drearily sweeping.. the broken pieces of yosterdays life.. somewhere a queen is weeping.. a king has no wife"

@paulablissett4447 4 жыл бұрын

@@thedude4795 You are right..

@roodick85 7 жыл бұрын

hehe the song history is too cute lol

@Moonlight-mz7mu 6 жыл бұрын

Right! It's nothing too serious and deep. I love ot

@vulpeish 2 жыл бұрын

^ ^ Jimi Hendrix writing " The wind cries Mary" has got to be the best Rock n Roll myth of all time ......I belive it! Too bad she didnt go to see him! Foxy Love fae Scotland VVxx

@paulcooper5748 3 жыл бұрын

Jimi doesn't like lumpy mash me either love hearing about jimi would have been awesome to see him live.🎸🎸

@brittdavid8591 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Queen, peace

@jimmymurphy7789 5 жыл бұрын

Jimi must've had a bit o' the old Irish in him. If it was me, I would have named it: The Wind Cries "Smooth Mashed Potatoes". Of course, "Mary" was the best choice to bring back the Peace & Harmony between them.

@paulablissett4447 4 жыл бұрын

Amen....

@pb12661 3 жыл бұрын

in the U.S., we all hate lumpy mashed potatoes. I probably would have been bitching about them too. lol

@georgealderson4424 3 жыл бұрын

I think in UK they call them "crushed" if they have lumps in them but they taste the same! JH would have definitely been on my dinner party guest list as he was apparently a gentle and introverted chap. May he rest in peace always.

@jaybear3278 5 жыл бұрын

Originally from Derby, lived around the corner.

@homoerectus744 3 жыл бұрын

Jimi: you know,I felt so bad about our row...in fact...I wrote a little ditty about it.it goes like this.....

@klv400 8 жыл бұрын

Awesome!

@melo15813 10 жыл бұрын

"We talked all night" Suuuuure

@derangius 10 жыл бұрын

Yeah by "talked" she obviously meant "jack-hammered"

@Moonlight-mz7mu 6 жыл бұрын

I mean they probably did, they eventually moved in together so you're not one to talk.

@paulablissett9396 5 жыл бұрын

Yeah right, she did say in one interview, when the guy burst in the room, they were in bed, lol, if it were me, i sure as hell wouldn't be talking all night.... well maybe half the night... Wink..

@Connie-B 5 жыл бұрын

@@paulablissett9396 She goes into detail in her book about the night they met and Linda bursting into the room and catching them in bed..LOL

@paulablissett9396 5 жыл бұрын

@@Connie-B Yes, i know, Jimi broke Linda's heart he really did and Jimi being Jimi, felt , very bad about it however, Linda was doing lot of drugs, and drinking.....

@richardbeaton7324 Ай бұрын

Love her !

@lisarochwarg4707 Жыл бұрын

I almost think of Kathy as being Jimi's widow, even though they never married. Kathy Etchingham, the widow of Jimi Hendrix. Almost.

@y2daisy 3 жыл бұрын

🌸💔🌸

@thedude4795 8 жыл бұрын

Clueless interviewers made ms. Etchingham work her butt off! Made her overstate the shit out of every anecdote, if you wanna know about Jimi there it is!

@alexanderhelms9039 4 жыл бұрын

What you think when Jimi Hendrix this day live what Play he this day like in Love Jimi the Rat

@cjmoniscool 9 жыл бұрын

What song plays at the end??

@keithmccaslyn2527 5 жыл бұрын

An Alan Douglas remix of Land of the new rising sun,you can find it on the Album "Midnight Lightening"

@tattunic323 5 жыл бұрын

Gypsy boy on people hell and angels

@balkanboy1203 4 жыл бұрын

Murdered 100%.

@paulablissett4447 4 жыл бұрын

Yes, 110%

@balkanboy1203 4 жыл бұрын

@@paulablissett4447 he was more than revolutionary musician that's why he had to die and Kathy knows that. Greetings from ex Yugoslavia, a country destroyed by Establishment.

@thai3169 3 жыл бұрын

By Vesperax

@TylerVanner 8 жыл бұрын

didn't he say I want to kiss the back of your knee ?

@lamper2 7 жыл бұрын

yes and she said it was the only part he never did kiss

@TylerVanner 7 жыл бұрын

Good Man. Er ... Jimi ... You Missed a bit. Get lapping big boy lol

@paulablissett4447 4 жыл бұрын

@@lamper2 Right.....

@paulablissett4447 4 жыл бұрын

@@lamper2 Right.....

@111pixie 6 жыл бұрын

Haha this is dope

@hughjass1672 10 жыл бұрын

I never knew he was a black dude wow

@FRVDable 10 жыл бұрын

I hope you're kidding

@matthewpowell6280 10 жыл бұрын

either you are a troll or you been in space

@rockostiffredi4276 5 жыл бұрын

I thought he was Asian?

@jerryhayes3337 4 жыл бұрын

Jimi was black and native american as far as race goes ,but his soul was all black culture

@paulablissett4447 4 жыл бұрын

@@rockostiffredi4276 And part white, his mother was half white.... He was Black Canadian, Cherokee Indian, also.....

@annechris2677 3 жыл бұрын

she wud have saved him from murder

@thruend2496 3 жыл бұрын

Didnt the BBC have a ban on Jimi? Lol

@georgealderson4424 3 жыл бұрын

Probably. They do things like that from time to time!

@RICHBLACKCOCK 2 жыл бұрын

Thru End. stemming from the `69 LULU show appearance.

@Thefunksoulbro 3 жыл бұрын

Love risk, they are trying to do away with risk these days 😎

@NYCgirl927 4 жыл бұрын

Who is Monika Danneman then??? Who is the real girlfriend?

@tonymctony4551 4 жыл бұрын

I think jimi was crazy about linda Keith, seemed to get melancholy and mentioned her in live shows while singing.

@paulablissett4447 4 жыл бұрын

@@tonymctony4551 Jimi mentioned a lot of women while singing, Jimi loved women, he was like a kid in a candy store, his preference was white over black women...

@dakotarobert7975 Жыл бұрын

Too late

@harryjohnson8605 9 ай бұрын

I believe Linda Keith was jealous of kathy and jimi relationship

@RICHBLACKCOCK 2 жыл бұрын

death is kind` uv a 2 sided story depending on whom the deceased life encompassed. kathy etchingham claims that hendrix and her were lovers. right? "my british YOKO ONO"! hey. Jimis` words, not mine. so. Kathy Etchingham didn`t go to Hendrixs`s funeral in late 1970. DEVON WILSON did tho!!

@briancannon2870 3 жыл бұрын

Wow she's chasing that clout isn't she

@bartpitt2991 2 жыл бұрын

It’s an interesting insight after 50 years ?

@Jossette888 4 жыл бұрын

Jimi only loved one woman and that was Lithofayne Pridgon. This chick was just a side piece. www.theguardian.com/music/2015/mar/22/lithofayne-pridgon-jimi-hendrix-original-foxy-lady

@shrapnel77 4 жыл бұрын

Jimmy needed a straight and clean woman. That was the only way he would have survived, but that was not who Jimmy was.

@paulablissett4447 4 жыл бұрын

Not true....

@paulablissett4447 4 жыл бұрын

@@shrapnel77 Jimi wanted a down home girl as he put it, tired of women , actresses , models, play boy bunnies, that wanted him for his money, and mostly his stance in life, he wasn't stupid or naive.... He was thinking about marriage @ one point, he once said his life would be meaningless going forward, without a wife and children...

@paulablissett4447 4 жыл бұрын

Not true, Jimi was once head over heels in love with his child hood sweetheart Betty Jean Morgan.... While he was in the Army, he wrote Betty Jean and asked her to marry him, he purchased a ring for her, but her parents wouldn't let it happen, because they wanted her to finish school, it's true, he wasn't a womanizer then, and i do believe Jimi did hold Fayne close to his heart, and did love her...... Jimi once said, he never really truly loved anyone......It's a long complicated story, she was, however his muse, that's very true, no one woman @ that time, could tame Jimi down.......

@paulablissett4447 4 жыл бұрын

@Aaron I agree to disagree with you, sir...