Where did Jimi Hendrix grow up and live?

📍23 Brook Street, Mayfair, London, UK

1968 – 1969

“I lived at 23 Brook Street in Mayfair for a year between 1968 and 1969, in a flat above the one where George Frideric Handel had lived two hundred years before. I didn't know about Handel when I moved in — I found out later, and the idea delighted me. The flat was tiny and chaotic and I filled it with scarves and velvet and burning incense and the equipment for recording ideas at all hours. London in those years was the most alive place I had ever been — the fashion, the art, the sense that everything was possible and nothing was fixed. I recorded Electric Ladyland while I was based in London, and the city was in every note of it: the wildness and the beauty and the strangeness of being a Black American man who had found more freedom in England than he had ever known at home.”

👍 LovedThe extraordinary creative energy of late-sixties London — the sense of genuine cultural revolution happening in real time. The freedom from the racial constraints I had grown up with in America. The community of musicians and artists who understood what I was trying to do.

👎 DislikedThe flat was cramped and difficult to work in seriously. The constant stream of visitors and hangers-on made concentration impossible. The pressures of management and commercial expectations that followed me even here.

Map showing where Jimi Hendrix lived — 23 Brook Street, Mayfair, London, UK

🗺️ Approximate location today

Street view of Jimi Hendrix's home at 23 Brook Street, Mayfair, London, UK

📍 Street view today

Sources: Cross, C. Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix (2005), Hyperion; Murray, C. Crosstown Traffic: Jimi Hendrix and the Rock 'n' Roll Revolution (1989), St Martin's Press; Hendrix Experience Museum archives