A 45-Year Old Jimi Hendrix Photo Mystery Gets Solved

There’s just something about this picture.

It all started with a French music promoter and self-professed Jimi Hendrix fanatic, Yazid Manou. Over the years, Manou has helped organize some of the biggest tributes and events built around the legendary guitar player. Additionally, for more than 20 years, he’s worked with artists as storied as Taj Mahal, Steve Winwood and Led Zeppelin. But for him, nothing compares to Hendrix.

Manou has even become a bit of a Jimi Hendrix detective, researching rare performances and photos. He was the first one to reveal the now-famous telegram that Hendrix sent to Paul McCartney in Oct.1969. In 1998, he gave B.B. King a copy of a jam that the blues great had played with Hendrix 30 years earlier; a sonic artifact that King had never heard before. He also presented Eric Clapton with shots of he and Hendrix that Clapton had never seen before.

One of his favorite Hendrix performances is the much-bootlegged Royal Albert Hall show from London, filmed on Feb. 24, 1969. The show has never been released commercially but has always been popular on the underground circuit.

A famous moment in the film occurs near the end of the concert, just before Hendrix burns through ‘Purple Haze.” A young child, a boy perhaps just three or four years old, adorably emerges from the wings and bustles over to Hendrix, who bends down as the child appears to whisper a message to him. Seemingly happy that his mission is complete, the child then toddles off the stage.


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