Musical neighbours
FOLLOWING an 18-month renovation, Handel Hendrix House museum—hiding in plain sight, on Mayfair’s Brook Street, W1—has reopened.
George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) and Jimi Hendrix (1942–1970), which he wrote for the 1727 crowning of George II. (It’s been used at every coronation since.) Hendrix was an American blues and funk-loving electric guitarist who, in the 1960s, used sound-distortion techniques to astound audiences, simultaneously outraging the wider public with his rock ’n’ roll antics and habit of setting instruments alight on stage.