Hendrix wouldn’t be the only artist who dodged the Vietnam War. To get out of military service, Springsteen reportedly pretended to be on LSD. Although the songwriter was drafted, he never served.

Jimi Hendrix might have stayed in the Army. He might have been sent to Vietnam. Instead, he pretended he was gay. And with that, he was discharged from the 101st Airborne in 1962, launching a ...

Just one month after closing out Woodstock with a searing rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” Jimi Hendrix went onto The Dick Cavett Show to explain why he decided to reimagine the song ...

50 years ago, Jimi Hendrix’s Woodstock anthem expressed the hopes and fears of a nation ... On one side, there was America’s youth, outraged by racial injustice and war in Vietnam.

In 1969, Jimi Hendrix played a stirring rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner” at Woodstock as part of a musical melody that incorporated sounds of war and taps, the bugle call played at ...

The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, a celebration of peace and music, was staged amid the tumult in the United States created by the Vietnam War. But when Henry Diltz gazed out at Max Yasgur’s ...