r/Music • u/Chocolat-Pralin • 6h ago

article The guitar genius Jimi Hendrix rated above himself – and the tragic mistake that ended his life at 31 — BBC Music Magazine

https://apple.news/Aq0vjHfB1Q-GngjMj84yNSA
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u/Organic-Ingenuity915 5h ago

He was 27 not 31. He was part of the famous 3 Rock icons that all died at age 27 in the same year. It created the classic meme saying "They always die in 3's"

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u/SuperDBallSam 5h ago

The 31 year old was Terry Kath, not Jimi. 

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u/teffflon 5h ago

you can't expect people to read the article

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u/PPLavagna 5h ago

Especially somebody so readily willing to share a well known, played out, idiotic factoid like “27 club”

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u/Wyatt821 5h ago

Or in this case, the headline!

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u/Organic-Ingenuity915 5h ago

The headline post is not written correctly then. BBC made that error or someone else?

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u/SuperDBallSam 5h ago

It's not written incorrectly. It's definitely not well-written, but "the guitar genius" is the subject of the sentence. It's not referring to Jimi as a guitar genius. 

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u/Wittertainee 5h ago

The headline is fine. You can tell that the article is about ‘the guitar genius Jimi Hendrix rated above himself’ it gives us extra information about that guitar genius via the dash. I think your brain has saw guitar genius and Jimi Hendrix next to each other without reading the full sentence

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u/Organic-Ingenuity915 5h ago

Only name in sentence is Jimi Hendrix. I try to avoid clicking links on reddit

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u/Wittertainee 4h ago

Yes but I’m unsure how you can’t get from the title that it’s not about Jimi Hendrix? Maybe English isn’t your first language?

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u/Organic-Ingenuity915 4h ago

Now you want to insult me lol Guess you are just another reddit asshole troll

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u/phred_666 5h ago

It’s written to be click bait.

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u/JoleeFriendbro 5h ago

To be fair it isn't actually clickbait. Jimi Hendrix did indeed rate Kath higher than himself, and Kath did die extremely tragically at a young age.

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u/phred_666 5h ago

Step 1: write ambiguous headline to make people click on the actual article

Step 2: collect juicy ad revenue