Jimi Hendrix 1973

Jimi Hendrix on a centrespread poster in Bravo of 11 October 1973.

Jimi Hendrix 1971

Jimi Hendrix, not yet a year dead, on a centrespread poster in Bravo of 5 July 1971.

Jimi Hendrix 1974

Jimi Hendrix on a centrespread poster in Bravo of 14 November 1974

Jimi Hendrix 1973

Jimi Hendrix pictured in the Bravo Posters magazine of September 1973.

(h/t www.bravo-archiv.de)

Jimi Hendrix 1975

Jimi Hendrix on a superposter in Bravo of 25 August 1975

Jimi Hendrix 1977

Jimi Hendrix on a pull-out superposter in Bravo of 8 September 1977.

This poster was at the centre of the Great Poster Debate of September 1977 in our house. Although I bought the Bravo magazines, my younger brother and I took weekly turns in deciding which posters would go up in our shared bedroom. My brother’s bargaining strategy was that if he had no say, he’d veto any poster at all going up.

That week in early September 1977, the Superposter choice fell between a garish picture of Bay City Rollers clones Dead End Kids on the colour side (running tomorrow, but you can see the state of them in yesterday’s post), and this really cool monochrome photo of Jimi Hendrix.

I knew nothing of Hendrix, other than that he was dead. Alas, it was my brother’s week to choose the posters — and he opted for the deplorable Dead End Kids. I tried all I could to persuade him that Jimi had to go up, even trying to emotionally blackmail him by claiming that our recently late father — an opera and theatre man who named as his favourite singer Maria Callas — was a big Jimi Hendrix fan. To no avail. The Dead End Kids went up.

I never got to hear any of their records, but I would get to hear a lot of Hendrix’s. As would my brother.

Jimi Hendrix Experience 1967

The Jimi Hendrix Experience on a poster in a Bravo magazine of July 1967.

(h/t bravo-archiv.de)

Jimi Hendrix 1976

Jimi Hendrix single-page poster in Bravo of 23 September 1976, same issue that carried the excellent super-poster of Jimi.

Jimi Hendrix 1976

Very cool giant poster of Jimi Hendrix in Bravo of 23 September 1976. There was another Hendrix poster in that issue, which I’ll post in due course.

Like all of the posters here, the poster should download in its original size (in this case 9158 pixels height)

Jimi Hendrix 1976

Very cool giant poster of Jimi Hendrix in Bravo of 23 September 1976.

Like all of the posters here, the poster should download in its original size (in this case 9158 pixels height)