News Summary

• As a child, Hendrix’s imagination was vast.
• He carried around a broomstick before he could afford to buy his own guitar.
• He loved Flash Gordon and other sci-fi legends.
• He even claimed to have seen a UFO outside his house as a child.
• His work helped lay the groundwork for Afrofuturism and music's love affair with science fiction in the decades to come, something that Hendrix tragically wouldn't be around for due to his death at just 27.