BBC ON THIS DAY | 18 | 1970: Rock legend Hendrix dies after party
Jimi Hendrix created a revolutionary new sound for electric guitar music
The inquest heard he had taken nine sleeping pills but there was no evidence of drug addiction.
The guitarist's father, Al Hendrix, a landscape gardener, was the sole beneficiary of the will, estimated to be worth in the region of $500,000.
He set up a company, Experience Hendrix, with the aim of preserving his son's musical legacy.
On his death in 2002, the company was inherited by his step-daughter Janie. But Jimi's brother Leon claimed he had been unfairly written out of the will and launched a lawsuit in 2004 to try to overturn it.
In 2003 a survey by the Rolling Stone magazine named Jimi Hendrix the greatest guitarist in rock history.
