Lot Essay
Devon Wilson was a groupie and former lover of Brian Jones, Mick Jagger and Jimi Hendrix. She is immortalised in the Hendrix song Dolly Dagger.
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Jimi Hendrix
A set of preliminary working lyrics in Jimi Hendrix's hand, circa 1970, the 7 lines in black ballpoint pen on yellow legal paper showing deletions and amendments as Hendrix worked out the song's wording Hello night bird, how was your day? Did you visit the gods in the valleys far away? What did you bring me... in your visit from the seas the paper additionally annotated with a doodle of a winged figure titled Make Love To Me, two figures intertwined, a phallic symbol and other doodles, all in Hendrix's hand, the page also inscribed I brought you me!, Devon [Wilson, former girlfriend of Hendrix]
8x12½in. (20x32cm.) framed
A set of preliminary working lyrics in Jimi Hendrix's hand, circa 1970, the 7 lines in black ballpoint pen on yellow legal paper showing deletions and amendments as Hendrix worked out the song's wording Hello night bird, how was your day? Did you visit the gods in the valleys far away? What did you bring me... in your visit from the seas the paper additionally annotated with a doodle of a winged figure titled Make Love To Me, two figures intertwined, a phallic symbol and other doodles, all in Hendrix's hand, the page also inscribed I brought you me!, Devon [Wilson, former girlfriend of Hendrix]
8x12½in. (20x32cm.) framed
Provenance
The Collection of Red Ronnie.