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Recognition: Awards & Achievements
Asterix in the table indicates the award was for The Jimi Hendrix Experience.

"We were off somewhere on the road, and I was brushing my teeth, thinking about it," Hendrix said of the Melody Maker Pop Musician of the Year Award (1967). "I started to cry because it meant so much, and I ended up washing my face three times to get off this mess of tears and toothpaste." The award was the first of many Hendrix won during his lifetime, but many more were given posthumously. In its March 15, 1968 issue, rock journalist | Alfred G. Aronowitz writing in Life Magazine, described Hendrix as "the most spectacular electric guitarist in the world."

Despite Hendrix's influence on other major musicians, Hendrix did not receive a single Grammy Award in his lifetime &mdash; not even a nomination. Posthumously, he and The Jimi Hendrix Experience received a collective total of seven Grammy awards (see table above) including one Hendrix received for Lifetime Achievement.

In addition to Rolling Stone, Guitar World and many other magazines and polls have voted Hendrix the best electric guitarist of all time.

Guitar World's readers voted six of Hendrix's solos among the top 100 Greatest Guitar Solos of All Time: "Purple Haze" (70), "The Star-Spangled Banner" (52), "Machine Gun" (32), "Little Wing" (18), "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" (11) and "All Along the Watchtower" (5).

The English Heritage blue plaque that identifies his former residence at 23 Brook Street, London, was the first the organization granted to a pop/rock star in the UK. It was a direct result of Kathy Etchingham's efforts, Hendrix's former girlfriend who lived with him at the flat. She wrote to English Heritage first in 1992 and her request, along with all those received from other writers, was declined. She persisted and asked others to write. Finally the Committee gave its approval. There "had been talk of carrying it out in purple," Sue Ashworth, one of the plaque makers remembers, but it was eventually done in the traditional blue.

"We needed a guitar player to do this," Pete Townshend said, at the plaque's unveiling in September 1997. Noel Redding, and Kathy Etchingham, looked on with several other rock luminaries and hundreds of other people in the street. "And I'm so proud to be able to pull this bit of string [to unveil the plaque]. I have to tell you, I am so proud," Townshend added.

This is the only one of Hendrix's homes officially recognized as such in the world. Hendrix's childhood home of 900 square feet in Seattle where he lived in abject poverty   for about three years no longer exists. Some of its original fixtures and contents were put in storage by the structure's owner, Pete Sikov. The real-estate investor spent some $100,000 trying to rescue the home. But after spending eight years trying to get it set up as a "music centre" with the "James Marshall Hendrix Foundation" with no result, it was finally demolished in 2009.