Jimi Hendrix Personally Owned Red Silk Scarf From the Collection of Sharon Lawrence W/Letter of Provenance - This red silk scarf was personally owned by legendary musician, Jimi Hendrix. Jimi Hendrix's mainstream career lasted only four years, and yet he is regarded as one of the most influential guitarists in history and one of the most celebrated musicians of the 20th century. The Jimi Hendrix Experience was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. All three of the band's studio albums were ranked among the 100 greatest albums of all time by Rolling Stone magazine, who also ranked Hendrix the greatest guitarist and the sixth greatest artist of all time. The scarf comes with a letter of provenance from Sharon Lawrence, who was a freelance journalist who became a close friend of Jimi Hendrix during the last three years of his life, while working as a reporter in Los Angeles. Lawrence would go on to write the book "Jimi Hendrix: The Man, The Magic, The Truth" based partly on her never-before-heard recorded interviews with the late musician. According to the letter of provenance, Lawrence was often visited by Jimi Hendrix at her Sunset Strip apartment whenever he was in LA during the last part of 1968 through 1969, and "on several occasions he brought cardboard boxes of things he'd mainly bought, sometimes given by fans, items that clicked with him....items he wanted to protect," and leave them in her carport for safekeeping. The letter states that this scarf was purchased by Hendrix in Paris in 1968 and that it was slightly wrinkled, as she quotes Jimi, "because I wore it as a belt at the next gig." The scarf will come with the original letter of provenance from Sharon Lawrence, dated March 2009. Measurements: 34" x 34"