The greatest guitarist ever, exhausted and electric, playing his final UK show at dawn.
Jimi Hendrix's last UK performance was a memorable one, taking place at England's answer to Woodstock: the Isle of Wight rock festival. This video features the entire set, which includes incendiary versions of 'All Along the Watchtower', 'Voodoo Chile' and 'Message To Love'.
Practical Effects
Hendrix's hands: watching fingers work impossible magic in real time.
Direction
Lerner captures dawn breaking as the set unfolds—poetry without words.
Director
Murray Lerner
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Hendrix's only festival headline set ever filmed in its entirety—Murray Lerner had been denied Woodstock access.
The 1970 Isle of Wight crowd was notoriously hostile—Hendrix won them over gradually, a battle visible in his face.
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