McCartney reaches retirement age, Hendrix still dead - of time and rock stars...

On this day in 1967, Jimi Hendrix burst upon the consciousness of American rock audiences with a blistering set of psychedelic blues rock at the Monterey Pop festival, at the climax of which he threw his guitar to the stage, squirted it with lighter fluid, and set it ablaze. That image of Hendrix - who would tragically be labeled “a sex machine/witch doctor” because of his action - burning his instrument would become the definitive moment of the first great rock festival and an iconic moment in a decade full of iconic moments...