Mr Mankowitz has been going back through his 100 or so shots for a new book and exhibition.

BBC: The real Jimi Hendrix experience

Listening to the radio interview now, Jimi Hendrix sounds the gentle, polite man recalled too by Mr Mayer and Mr Mankowitz.

BBC: The real Jimi Hendrix experience

On the walls, a 17th-century Flemish tapestry faces a lenticular portrait of Jimi Hendrix by Gered Mankowitz and a series of small '20s-era Cubist paintings.

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