“The Greatest Night in Pop” director Bao Nguyen has found his next music project: a feature-length documentary about Jimi Hendrix.
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“Jimi,” from Double Agent, Network Entertainment and Experience Hendrix, is the first full-length documentary about the iconic rock star authorized by his estate.
According to a press release, the film will "tell the story of a transformative period in music history when Jimi Hendrix set the world – and his guitar – on fire." It will trace the young Hendrix's rise to rock 'n' roll stardom in the 1960s, when he wowed audiences in London before returning to the U.S. for his groundbreaking psychedelic masterclass at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival.
"Jimi's time in London was one of the most pivotal in his life's journey and his musical career. The social life, the nightlife that often spilled over into the day, the connections he made, decisions about where he wanted to take his music and where he wanted his music to take him; it all became a kind of road map for the direction his life would take," Hendrix's sister, Janie Hendrix, said in a statement. "Just as Bao Nguyen has accomplished in his films highlighting the lives of other iconic figures who have influenced pop culture, this presentation of Jimi's London experience will be inspiring and informative — a story told as it should be told."
