More than forty years after his death, Jimi Hendrix�recently named the greatest guitarist of all time by Rolling Stone magazine�continues to inspire fans. Many have written about Hendrix�s life and music, but Jimi Hendrix: A Brother�s Story provides a revealing and unprecedented look at this visionary icon: an intimate biography written by Jimi�s younger brother, Leon.Leon Hendrix takes us back to the days before Jimi�s amazing rise to fame, beginning with their tough childhood in Seattle, when their fascination with science fiction and UFOs helped them escape a difficult family life. (Jimi insisted his family call him �Buster,� after Flash Gordon actor Buster Crabbe.) The author reveals Jimi�s early fascination with sound, from his experiments with plucking wires attached to bedposts to the time when he got in trouble for taking apart the family radio (�I was looking for the music,� he explained) to Jimi�s purchasing his first guitar�a Sears, Roebuck and Co. acoustic, from a neighbor.Leon recounts Jimi�s early days performing on the �Chitlin� Circuit,� when Jimi would call from the road to play early versions of tracks for the classic album Are You Experienced, and illuminates the biographical roots of Jimi�s most well-known songs. Readers learn about the heady days of sex and drugs that came with Jimi�s skyrocketing fame and how Leon felt Jimi�s management isolated him from the rest of the family. The author speaks of his own heartbreak, learning of his brother�s sudden death while incarcerated in Washington State�s Monroe Reformatory.Commemorating what would have been Jimi's seventieth birthday, Leon Hendrix�s poignant and captivating account sheds new light on a music legend.