The manager of Noel Redding, bass player for Jimi Hendrix, last night announced the guitarist had died - he was 57. In a statement manager Ian Grant told reporters: "Noel re-unites with Jimi and his mother Margaret who died only a few weeks ago."
The untimely death will probably bring to an end the legal action Redding recently started to pursue against the Experience Hendrix, the company which looks after the Hendrix back catalogue. Redding claimed the company owed him $5 million in unpaid royalty earnings for his creative input on Hendrix's work.