Before Jimi Hendrix performed the most infamous rendition of the National Anthem at Woodstock in 1969, he was a military brat. Yes, the ever-so rebellious, controversial, and bohemian Jimi Hendrix was ...

Philip Norman’s 2020 book Wild Thing: The Short, Spellbinding Life of Jimi Hendrix described how Hendrix came to join the army in the first place. He had a run-in with the law after stealing some ...

Jimi Hendrix only served in the U.S. Army for about 13 months because of his early discharge. The reasoning behind this discharge, however, was reportedly due to “homosexual tendencies” exhibited by ...

Gabrielle Ulubay is a Music writer at Collider. She has previously been published in The New York Times, Bustle, HuffPost Personal, and other magazines, and wrote at Marie Claire for nearly three ...

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 musical ...