For three months in 1966, Hendrix lived in a flat in Brook Street, which is now a museum to his time in London. He is known to have given his phone number out to so many people that his girlfriend had a second phone line installed. At times, it got so bad that they had to leave the first one off the hook most of the time. Then he started giving everyone the second number ...

 On learning that G. F. Handel had lived just next door (over 200 years earlier) Hendrix went to the One Stop Record Shop in South Molton Street and bought some classical albums – including Handel’s Messiah and Water Music. Today, the two homes are presented as one museum, exploring the domestic lives of two musicians, centuries apart.