Linda Keith Interview on Jimi Hendrix (1973)
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- Linda Keith (born 1946) is a former British fashion model,[1] best known for her work for Vogue magazine during the 1960s as well as her involvement in the rock music scene.[2]
Biography
Linda Keith was born to Pearl Rebuck and Alan Keith, a British actor and radio presenter who objected to her career as a fashion model. While working for Vogue, Linda dated Keith Richards and spent time living in New York City where she frequented the clubs in Greenwich Village. She helped discover Jimi Hendrix by introducing him to Chas Chandler.[3][4] She was also the first cousin of Free guitarist Paul Kossoff.
In the mid-1960s Keith became well connected culturally in the early days of the "Swinging Sixties". She was photographed by David Bailey and, together with Sheila Klein, partner of the Rolling Stones' manager Andrew Loog Oldham, was at the heart of a bohemian community in London's West Hampstead. She formed relationships with Keith Richards of the Stones and, later in New York City, Jimi Hendrix, but drifted into drug dependency. Richards appears to have been instrumental in Alan Keith's going out to America to find his daughter. On their return she was made a ward of court. She later brought up her own family and, in 2010, was living in New Orleans.[5] According to Richards, Linda Keith was the subject of the Rolling Stones song "Ruby Tuesday". The song includes the lyrics "[w]hen you change with every new day / Still I'm gonna miss you".
In the film Jimi: All Is by My Side it is suggested Jimi Hendrix also wrote the song "Red House" about Linda.
This is the actual person who discovered Jimi - Chas came along later. She deserves more credit.
And he is dead now..mixing with the wrong people as did Amey ..druggies....
@@keithwigley1256 no one gets out alive, asswipe🖕🏼
This chick hardly ‘discovered’ Jimi🙄
Yeah, I guess the Isley Bros never even noticed him at all.
@@AZCobraman hiring someone as a band member can't be described as "discovering" , it's not like they offered him a record deal or anything
She helped open the door for the greatest guitar player there ever was.God Bless you Ma'am.
And he's dead at an early age..great, wonderful , wow ..you have to die young full of drugs surrounded by drugs to achieve greatness..and what was she taking..
Aye, that's not all she opened for him.
She opened him up to the world of drugs...and died to young..
@@banjopink4409 She put a spell on him baby. And Jimi will put a spell on you. Welcome to the 60's summer of 💕
@@keithwigley1256 ua-cam.com/video/DvN0f9pOsNs/v-deo.html
God, she was so beautiful 😍
Yes lovely bird
True that
Word!
Yum yum
she was a British fashion model & appeared in Vogue a bunch.
It is amazing how much a sexy and beautiful woman can influence and persuade a man into new directions. This woman right here deserves a colossal ‘counselor of a legend’ trophy.
@@genevievelelanne2798 bro, he was so big, don’t you think sooner or later he would be introduced to drugs??? she happened to be one of the first
The world owes this beautiful muse a debt of gratitude that could never be repaid.
This lady worked her ass off to get Jimi noticed, true legend
LOL.....She fancied him. Jimi would of been discovered with or without Linda. Even Little Richard said he was a star.
@@wilbertkendal2524 well no one seemed more determined than her at the time. Plus she was engaged to Keith Richards the time she found him. She lit the fire way down inside, even Hendrix said so
@@ariicotter LOL.....Jimi didn't say 'Jack S***' and where's the proof. Hendrix would have been discovered with or without Linda. End of story
@@wilbertkendal2524 you're 100% wrong... Without Linda Keith, Jimi would've been lost in America.. Hopping around doing small gigs. He'd played with bands like the Isley's, Little Richard and other well known bands but he couldn't find his nitch. Linda and Chas Chandler are responsible for taking him to England and making him into a star there. Without Linda and Chas, we wouldn't know Jimi Hendrix. That's just facts. Sometimes we all need help from others to find our place.
LOFL, jimi was already noticed and was going to be noticed regardless, unfortunately she exposed Jimi to all the wrong people especially his shit ass murdering management, Jimi prolly still be with us had he never ran into these vultures "dark ulterior motives" yea they only got him murdered
crazy how i think ive seen and head everything about jimi and this pops up in 2021
just watch the film Jimi Hendrix (1973). First doc about Hendrix done.
Only believe half of what you hear and you cant go wrong hahaha i used to talk to him in the Café de Paris across the road from where they really started out as John "Mitch" was not old enough to work in clubs .
Hirepgym really? Did you work there?
@@NYisconstipated Chas Chandler brought Hendrix here because this is where Noel Redding went to school (William Harvey Gramma School) and Noels mum Margret eventually kept all Jimmy's guitars at the Mill House when he died , John "Mitch" lived near by at Rye i was a well known Boxer at the time and thats how i ended up being involved in bands including Lizzy , Curved Air and Sid Vicious just about every one who was any one used stay at Chas Chandlers cottages i met and knew most of them Frankie Miller , Jimmy Leverton , Henry McColough was one of my best mates , the third version of Electric Ladyland with the women on the cover were all Danish nurses Noel found around Striders Flat . A very old friend of mine recently showed me the first and original hand drawn Hendrix Experience notice from the Hillside Club door which i remember the first place they ever played when John was too young to be in there hahaha
The Legend that Hendrix was thrown out of Tofts is false Harold told me it was Noel he slung out .
Her father, Alan Keith, used to present 'Your 100 Best Tunes' on BBC Radio 2 for many years (which introduced me to classical music). He was born Alexander Kossoff, and was the brother of the actor David Kossoff. Paul Kossoff, the guitarist with Free, was the son of David Kossoff, and was Linda's cousin. Quite a Rock 'n' Roll family.
Linda rarely gets credit for influencing her boyfriend Keith Richards. (She was living "the Keith Richard's lifestyle" before he was.) That she also discovered Jimi Hendrix and put him in touch with people in the UK who could help his career says much about her good taste ! Thanks for posting.
Yea club 27 ring a bell?
Anita Pallenberg was his big influeance!
@@jessicabakker2616 Yes, Anita was an amazing woman and absolutely had a big influence on Brian first, then Keith (and Mick). But people forget about Linda. She had an influence on Keith and the Stones with her fashion and bohemian lifestyle before any of them even met Anita.
@Monsieur Tarzan Yes I know. He was worried about her. But also that's his side of the story. Linda hated him for involving her parents.
Kind of ironic that he tried to intervene when she was "overdoing it" when he then overdid it himself for > 10 years !
Yes she was the one who discovered Hendrix. Not any so called MIP. She's a legend.
Natural beauty is what I see here. But her personality is what makes it even better.
Its about jimi hendrix why are u so horny damn
Nice elocution but plug ugly mush.
she was a British fashion model & appeared in Vogue a bunch. She dated Keith Richards, according to Richards, Linda Keith was the subject of the Rolling Stones song "Ruby Tuesday"
Where ? I Just see drugs..?
@@alwayslookingatself Yes, she went out with Keith for a couple of years. They went out looking for a country house to live in together in early '66, when they took a wrong turn and found Redlands. Keith still owns it today.
I will never forget the first time I heard Jimi.
It was Purple Haze first time it was played on the radio, for me.
Jimi's words say it best, "You got me blowing, blowing my mind, is it tomorrow ? or just the end of time"
Live?
Saturday Club on BBC radio was the first time I heard Hendrix , 66 or 67 .
Some people collect coins, or stamps. Linda collected talented guitarists. A small, but valuable collection.
so true
Thank you Linda for getting Jimi to the right place
Thank God for Linda , she got Jimi to get himself some recognition and eventually record the most famous album In rock history !
What was the name of "that"album?
Thanks for giving Jimi the opportunity. Your hair is amazing.
Beautiful women carry such tremendous power and influence and have for thousands of years.
After seeing All Is by my Side I just had to find out more about the real Linda Keith, played brilliantly by Imogen Boots in the film. I am astounded at the intelligence, vision & initiative displayed by this young girl & the way she single-handedly introduced Jimi to his audience. When many others dismissed Jimi she saw his potential. In the manner of a true muse she nurtured his talent & helped him to have faith in his own genius. Thank you Linda for being there when Jimi needed you & ushering in one of the greatest talents of the 20th century.
What a voice ! Along the venues historical memories ! Well done, one voice to another.Love
💋
that movie is littered with inaccuracies, but "fun" to watch...too bad those movies never get it right
The actress that portrayed Linda Keith is, Imogen Poots.
That's really good, but i dont think much justice was done to her in the film.
50 years later and you still can't see it. Jimi created something completely unique.
She was beautiful.
Was!!!!
If you say so ?
@@keithwigley1256 lol
AND thats from the 60’s ?….. Top Notch
she looked like noel redding
In 1973 I was just a kid not even in school yet, but my taste and sense of aesthetics was formed for my life in those years. I like everything about this woman, the way she looks, is dressed, and the slow, thoughtful way she speaks, giving her emotions plenty of time to catch up with the words. And I like what she liked, the music of Jimmy Hendrix. It's pure magic for me, like childhood is.
Thank you Linda Keith.
what for?
The woman who Ruby Tuesday was written about.
I suspect that there were a lot good people just like this lady who have helped musicians get started with their careers.
They say that Angie Bowie inspired David a lot with the Ziggy image. 🤘❗
At the end of an impromptu interview in Dallas - April 20, 1969 - Jimi is asked if Dylan is a major influence on him. He answers, "Yeah, him and this girl named Linda Keith turned my mind on" and then did the Hendrix laugh: ua-cam.com/video/bW1jgOao3Y0/v-deo.html Starts at 0:23
It's great to know a future star in their early days.
Thank you Linda. There should be statue of you in front of Cafe Whah.
Why ?
Yeah why? What a dumb comment.
@@Robert5185 she discovered Hendrix when nobody saw potential in him.
LOL.....She fancied him. Jimi would of been discovered with or without Linda. Even Little Richard said he was a star.
@@wilbertkendal2524 maybe, but this wss not only question of star or not. He needed soil to explode. And that soil was England and its guitar scene. You are LOL
This beautiful woman was the subject of The Rolling Stones song "Ruby Tuesday" written mainly by Keith Richards.
Jimi Hendrix also wrote his song "Red House" about her.
OMG I know its been said by a lot of old duffers but here it comes again...I just loved being around in those wonderful times!!
Send My Love To Linda
All the guys all really liked Jimi, but you listened to all the women interviewed and they all loved him. It’s always the same: they sound like they’re melting when they speak about him.
And he was nothing to look at.
@@maggiemae7539
Jimi was a handsome man.
Jimi was polite, soft spoken, modest and caring from what I've gathered from interviews. Fine qualities.
@Sabah Zarid
A R&R Casanova.
A gang of groupies plasterer-cast his "you know what" !!!!
Thank you Linda. This video is shortest 3 minutes ever.
Hendrix is up there with Leonardo da Vinci one of these days you'll take him his albums apart and you'll figure out what he's talking about. 50 years later.
Paul Kossoff's cousin... Introduced Hendrix to Chandler. Scene-maker extraordinaire
"We got him a guitar which was a good starting point". lol I love how you can tell she knew how funny that sounded.
she gave him Keith's white strat ... without Keith's knowledge
I wish I had someone to give me free guitar god damn
She couldn't imagine Jimi doing "that dance routine" after she had just witnessed him.... "doing that dance routine". The fact that he did and could do it is what made Jimi even cooler, which is what she did not seem to comprehend, because, in its own way.., that is what made Jimi's guitar sing the way it did and still does.
WTF are you talking about?
@@mgreene011 If you don't know, then, you don't know. That's not my job; to help folks trying to figure out what I meant.
@@skineyemin4276 okie dokie dude.
Jimi did a dance trace like song is all i know. It wasn't heavy metal but Jimi was going to chance and sometimes he covered music he liked but was not really the exceptional music fans expected But Jimi like a lot of famous artist, didn't care, make his mark and want to move on. Neil Young did that a lot . Fave jimi : Purple H, wind cries, You got me Floating, if a 6 were a 9, and the great Lttle WIng. Red House, All along the watchtower. Not really into Jimi after his first 2 records but they were both outstanding
I think she was referring to Jimi doing dance moves as a member of the backup band. He was playing with Curtis Knight's band when they met in the Village. She said after she got to know him, she couldn't believe he'd stoop to doing those corny dance moves. But he toured with several bands through the South before being discovered and wisked away to London in 1966.
Send my love to Linda
I will.
Imagine how many more talented people are not being "discovered" by them that attain the possibilities
A rare breed of woman whose passion and work ethic actually exceeded her partner's and did everything they could to make them succeed
In this round of great interviews in 73 it seems whoever you listen to they sound instrumental in Jimi's life.
Such a foxey lady - I can see why she was Keith Richards squeeze in the mid-60's. Keith was a bit angry and jealous of Jimi for going with Linda.
Just imagine how Brian Jones felt when Keith did it to him.
I would of let him have her...
@@keithwigley1256 You'd probably no choice in the matter.
She got "turnt" out, as we used to say.
They was tripping off last that night.
A very classy and lovely lady, who did a lit to publicize Jimi, early days.
I Lived the 60s it was great and awesome, baby
Omg, i have spent hours looking for information.
Shes still alive in 2021.
these interviews are fantastic Thank You.
that recent movie starring Andre 3000, had Hendrix beating one of his main girlfriends with a phone-then I saw her interviewed, and she said he never laid a hand on her, and was a total gent. Movies can be so wicked for the sake of cheap dramatics.
plus, it weakened my impression of andre
Yeah that was a weird thing to invent for a movie. No wonder there wasn’t any of Jimi’s music in it. I thought Andre did an excellent job!
Jimi is the guitar GOAT, end of discussion!
psychedelic guitar greatest he is and the pinnacle of 60s music
the real guitar goats classical flamenco gypsy french and spanish jazz
they we're around like idk a hunderd years ago?
Of Fingerpicking? Jazz? Bluegrass Flatpicking? Gypsy Swing? I love Jimi's playing, but there are loads of GREAT guitar players in all sorts of genres...
@@GCKelloch I'd probably say Django is my all-time favorite player also...nobody makes me smile like Django. Incredible player. Love to hear Jerry Reed play also...
Jimi Hendrix wrote the song "Red House" about Linda, but I bet he also wrote “Foxy Lady” about her too.
You forgot 'Angel' & 'Little Wing' - :(
I think Red House was about Linda Keith or another person’s boyfriend’s drug den
Calling bullshit on the first part.
@@sgt.thundercok4704 - I Googled the first part, the BS is the second part, actually.
@@MRROBBIEWATTS angel is also about his mother
She is gorgeous ❤️
Keith Richards was so pissed at Linda's interest, he called her father, and told him her daughter was in a relationship with a black junkie. The dad flew to NYC and kidnapped her back. Hearing the dad was downstairs, Jimi looked in the mirror....."do I look alright?" ref Charles R Cross Hendrix bio.
She still gets all tingly remembering Jimi's genius fingering technique. And she's not talking about with his upside-down Fender strat!😉😂😲😎👐💓
This is really disrespectful. No one pulls cr*p like this with Epstein & The Beatles.
Genius muse We thank you dearest Linda Keith
I remember seeing this girl in the Mimi Hendrix movie that came out in the mid 70s. Probably the first one. She was one of his closest girlfriends. Cool as they come. 😎✌️❤️
met her many years ago. she was really nice.
What a beauty.
Classy. In every aspect.
Jimi RIP ♥️💜💙💚💛💟💕
As jimi said send my love to linda.
What a lovely lady and very beautiful too! I read Jimi Hendrix's girlfriend, Kathy Etchingham's autobiography a while back and she recounted a story of her friend Linda Money, the wife of musician Zoot Money, attacking this poor woman, in the late 1960's, in The Bag O Nails nightclub, in London, due to some unhappy history between Kathy and Linda. So sad.
Linda had substance abuse problems at the time and went of the rails. But got over it all unlike some her friends who ended up drug casualties.
Behind Every Great Man, there's a Woman.🌹👍🏾
You're looking at the inspiration for "Ruby Tuesday." The song is about her - "Who could hang a name on you
When you change with every new day Still, I'm gonna miss you."
She obviously had an epiphany when she heard and saw Hendrix for the first time!
This woman has a beautiful British accent ❤
I think she broke Keith Richards heart. Every single bit of footage I’ve seen of him mentioning or being mentioning to of Linda he seemed visibly shaken by this woman. There’s that footage of Hendrix talking to Keith about her and Keith seeming running away from Hendrix during the conversation. The power of love and women.
Linda Kieth definitely a real beauty.
Be great to see all the outtakes
She seems like a very good person
Young ladies today are not that balanced, casual, and eloquent. What happened?
Feminism.
OK boomers...
Rap Music
Social media and betas
@@funkaholic1972 says the one whose UA-cam name is “funkaholic1972”
soooo beautiful !!
Chas Chandler is often credited for discovering Hendrix. Linda Keith delivered Hendrix to Chas and then Chas had the resource to go from there - sure. England was great for Jimi and all was just so timely. Unfortunately - Chas delivers Jimi to Mike Jeffrey. (Was there ever a comparison drawn of other artists that worked under Jeffrey he treated them?) The industry did not grow with Jimi. Miles was much more an assured and confident musician with attitude. Jimi was not so much and he really needed a business advocate when he started to want to expand, get cachet and turn the balance of power for those who worked FOR HIM. It seems that as long as Jeffrey was connected to Chas (manager) and Jimi (artist) that was not likely to happen. There are a lot of theories abound as to that dynamic. In the end it is reported that Jimi wanted out of the Jeffery contract near it's end but still wanted Chas to be re-upped as his manager. This lead to an alternate theory of his death.Then there is the Monica D factor and if that was a coincidental part of a perfect storm or if there was indeed a conspiracy. In any event Monica's credibility was shaky and shady. For me - learning about Hendrix in my teens was wonderful (music) and so sad (Jimi's life). His death was tragic and quite probably unjust.
Thanks for the info.I think it was Buddy Miles who once said,"if it wasn't for Mike Jeffrey Jimi would still be alive".
@@Joaquinonbasstheelectriklovein Jimi took sleeping pills not realising their strength. Took too much of everything. Was out of control. Jefferies didn't give him this attitude.
Gorgeous lady 🥰🎶
incredible beauty.
Jimi can play the left hemisphere of his brain as well as the right hemisphere of his brain. Jimi guitar we was his was his magic wand.
He could also play normal right handed if he wanted
This come from a documentary that came out in 1973 only 3 years after his death. It was pretty wild because all the people they interviewed were with Jimi only a few years before.
Do you know the name of the documentary??
@@cerrito7806 - Yes, its called "Jimi Hendrix" just his name, I posted a link below. Maybe you can find it on Amazon or Pirate bay. I saw it at a friends house and it was really really good, it has interviews with all the people who were in his life, his family, girlfriends, band members, even has an interview with his commanding officer from the Army. My friend said they use to play this movie at midnight showings in the 1970s.............www.imdb.com/title/tt0070242/
The full title of the documentary is “A film about Jimi Hendrix.” You can find plenty of them on eBay.
Beautiful lady in every way!!!
It's equal parts interesting and hilarious that she's rockin the perfect white-fro of the 70s-arguably made more hip and cool by Jimi Hendrix than anyone else! Thanks Foggy-great snippet.
seen the picture of jimi with his hair in curlers reading mad magazine? Noel Redding was the only band member with a natural 'fro!
@@omarks lol i bet that was done for a laugh
he obviously already had curly hair as a child
Jimi copied Bob Dylan's Jew-fro!
Omg she was gorgeous
What is that guitar in the last picture I wonder.. That's an actual lefthanded guitar I've never seen him with & I've seen probably most pics ever taken of him. It's not a Gibson or Fender.
Thank you so much Mam for discovering our Lord and Saviour
I love that hairstyle 😁
She jumped to Brian Jones when Keith Richards took up with Anita Pallenberg too.
How come women were so much classier then than they are now?
There was something called Elocution School. My mum used to go but these were expensive. Different generations have ruined traditional values. There are still diamonds in the rough.
Lovely lady , those cheek bones.. my goodness.. beautiful woman
This is from a documentary that was given to me when I was in college in Dublin in 1999 getting a lift home from a lovely English woman who ran the canteen who told me that her husband saw Hendrix at the Isle of Wight while on acid and can't remember any of it! It had interviews with Jagger, Clapton, Townsend and a load of his ex-girlfriends. Does anyone know what it was called?
The film is called: A Film about Jimi Hendrix, produced by Joe Boyd,1973.
Love Linda Keith.
Will do if she has straigtenned her life out and ceased to follow the band wagon of fame and fortune ...so many of these people have been complicite in the downfall of great musicians ..these musicians very often vulnerable are seduced by the so called cool vibe of drugs ..Amey Winehouse eg. By the hangers on ....so what did she introduce Jimmey to..
@@keithwigley1256 She's a 70 year old woman. I think she's over it. Stop worrying about it.
Wow she's good looking
Jimi & Kurt Cobain.
These 2 Seattle boyz, KNEW HOW 2 PICK EM!!!
Indeed!!
@@Einnor084 aww Courtney Love tho,...one seattle boy could pick em,and they was jimi...I adore kurt but in this arena he came up short 😆
Without looking at the title, I thought that was Jill Gascoigne.
From a distance, they both had hairy growlers.
She was ON Hendrix
Happy Birthday Jimi
THE BEST.🙏 RIP.
Its so weird that the last thing about this girl google could find was 40 years ago.
damn.... when she says "Completely involved"
Can someone plz give us a link to this full documentary .it was my firt rockumamentary
Linda Keith looks a little bit like Linda Lovelace.
Yes, particularly her throat
Other way around. Linda Keith was first.
A little bit , I thought it was linda lovelace
Pretty damned hawt.
she's foxy AF
@@stephenkane2464 Marianne Faithful> Linda
Where, Can I Get a DVD. Of Jimi,& Linda Keith. Jimi,First Were LSD,PURE SUGAR CLUB.INTRODUCE, BY LINDA KEITH.
JES'USNAME. SPECIAL PROJECT.
THANK YOU.
Herman Washington
Purple Haze is all about Linda Keith 💋 the sky
This is Ruby Tuesday
Correct. Fantastic song too.
Lovely lady.
This is Ruby Tuesday. She told Chaz Chandler about JH which resulted in JH going to England. I believe she turned him onto LSD.
She was also Keith Richard girlfriend if I’m not wrong?
@@syncops834 yes before anita .
Not true. Richards said in the book According to the Rolling Stones: "It was probably written about Linda Keith not being there (laughs). I don't know, she had pissed off somewhere. It was very mournful, very, VERY and it was a Tuesday"
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Linda "got Jimi a guitar", turns that guitar was Keith Richards 64 Stratocaster.Jimi had became a dedicated Strat player from that day forward.
LOL!.......Utter BS. Jimi knew exactly the type of guitars he wanted to play. In fact, it was the 'Isley Brothers' who bought him the white Stratocaster a guitar he selected upon joining the group in 1964.
Jimi owned many guitars, yes Jimi was influenced by Isley Bros, but even more so by Curtis Mayfield, Jimi always remembered and admired Mayfield's white stratocaster. Its true, Jimi was given several guitars, he also hock many guitars, thats exactly why Linda said "we had to get him another guitar". Its a well DOCUMENTED FACT, which can be found in Michael Heatley & Roger Mayers book (Jimi HENDRIX GEAR), that White Stratocaster was Keith's Richards 64. Linda took that White Stratocaster without Keith's permission, true story..also WELL DOCUMENTED.
@@precbsfender fact is jimi was playing a strat with the isley brothers so he did NOT become a dedicated strat player after linda gave him one but had been a dedicated strat player long before meeting her
Linda was too sophisticated for Keith Richard's, in my opinion, who was a bit of a yob back then. Another commented on different video, about Linda Keith's accent, how it's old school proper English, and an accent rapidly disappearing.
You can see how Keith Richards acquired a sophisticated accent in the late sixties hanging out with that crowd
Rapidly disappearing? Maybe on tv.
@@redstar7292 : Different chemistry. I agree.
Richards was like putty in Pallenberg's hands , and molded him . It's a shame Jones thought he could mold her into the housekeepers he was accustomed to .
But then...no matter what his faults were , you stay away from you band mate's woman .
That on top of Jones' insecurities is what did him in. A band mate taking over the band *and* his old lady . No wonder Richards tries to rewrite history , taking every interview about Jones the chance to ramble about woman beating and what a charming women liberator he himself was by "saving" Anita ...who was woman enough to take care of herself.