"ICONS OF MUSIC" AUCTION PREVIEW IN LONDON
Jimi Hendrix belt is displayed at the Hard Rock Cafe in London on April 11, 2007. It will be at the "Icons Of Music" auction at Hard Rock Cafe in New York on April 21. The proceeds will go to musicians of the Gulf Coast region who lost their livelihood after Hurricane Katrina. (UPI Photo/Rune Hellestad)
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SAN FRANCISCO, March 30 (UPI) -- Administrators with the San Francisco school district have chosen an unlikely mascot for a new education guide -- rock legend Jimi Hendrix.
LONDON, March 13 (UPI) -- A study by a doctorate student who looked at the music U.S. students like and their Scholastic Aptitude Test scores suggests U2 fans are generally smart.
NEW YORK, Oct. 19 (UPI) -- The Experience Hendrix tour traveling the United States gives people a chance to learn about the late rocker Jimi Hendrix, singer Kenny Wayne Shepherd says.
LONDON, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- A Boston, Mass., collector says he paid $495,000 at a London auction for the guitar believed to be the first Jimi Hendrix set on fire during a concert.
SEATTLE, June 30 (UPI) -- Washington Hall, where Fats Domino, Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington played back when black performers weren't welcome in Seattle's white venues, is for sale.
LOS ANGELES, April 29 (UPI) -- Iconic rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix, of "Foxy Lady" fame, purportedly is the subject of a sex tape scheduled for release, the tape's U.S. distributor says.
AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 28 (UPI) -- Famed drummer, singer and songwriter Buddy Miles has died of congestive heart failure at his home in Austin, Texas. He was 60.
SALEM, Ore., Feb. 25 (UPI) -- Larry Norman, widely regarded as the "father of Christian rock music," has died of heart failure at age 60 at his home in Salem, Ore., his family said.
