This day in music history.

September 18, 1970, Jimi Hendrix took nine sleeping pills after having drank a bottle of wine. The girl he was staying with found him with vomit on his face. An ambulance was called. It arrived about 11.20 a.m. Hendrix was still alive when he was placed in the ambulance. Sometime in the next twenty-five minutes before they arrived at St. Mary Abbot's Hospital, Jimi Hendrix choked to death. He was pronounced D.O.A. Hendrix left the message 'I need help bad man', on his managers answer phone earlier that night. The death certificate lists the cause as "inhalation of vomit due to barbituate intoxication." Later, insufficient evidence leads to an open verdict on his demise. Nonetheless, some contend that if Hendrix had been put into an upright position rather than left lying on his back, he might not have suffocated.
The pathologist reported a large amount of Seconol in Jimi's blood but no reason to assume that suicide was the cause of death.
His final recording 'Voodoo Chile', was released after his death and shot to the Number one on the charts.
Voodoo Chile by Jimi Hendrix
Well, the night I was born
Lord I swear the moon turned a fire red The night I was born
I swear the moon turned a fire red
Well my poor mother cried out lord, the gypsy was right!
And I seen her fell down right dead (have mercy)
Well, mountain lions found me there waitin And set me on a eagles back
Well, mountain lions found me there, And set me on a eagles wing
(its the eagles wing, baby, what did I say)
He took me past to the outskirts of infinity, And when he brought me back,
He gave me a venus witchs ring Hey! And he said fly on, fly on
Because Im a voodoo chile, baby, voodoo chile Hey! Well,
I make love to you, And lord knows you'll feel no pain Say,
I make love to you in your sleep, And lord knows you felt no pain (have mercy)
cause I'm a million miles away And at the same time
Im right here in your picture frame (yeah! what did I say now)
cause Im a voodoo chile Lord knows Im a voodoo chile
Well my arrows are made of desire From far away as jupiters sulphur mines
Say my arrows are made of desire, desire From far away as jupiters sulphur mines
(way down by the methabe sea, yeah)
I have a humming bird and it hums so loud, You think you were losing your mind,
hmmm...
Well I float in liquid gardens And arizona new red sand I float in liquid gardens
Way down in arizona red sand
Well, I taste the honey from a flower named blue,
Way down in california And the new york drowns as we hold hand cause
Im a voodoo chile
Lord knows Im a voodoo chile
Yeah!