Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train A Comin'

Having never seen or read a biography of the greatest guitarist history has known, I sprung at the opportunity when spotting a documentary by Imagine currently on BBC i player.
Immediately there is the sense of a young, shy boy who confronted his social anxieties by playing guitar. He brought the instrument everywhere, even to the movies.
Inspired by his Dad's blues record collection, he set about, when his Dad bought him an acoustic guitar, he spent all his free time practicing and playing in the eccentric style of artists like Robert Johnson. And so it wasn't long before his Dad purchased Jimi his first electric guitar, which he carried on him throughout military service and his early musical career in New York.
But these early career days were spent playing background guitar for shows which certainly didn't let him express his own, unique personal touch, so it was only when he met the girlfriend of a Rolling Stones band member and traveled to the vibrant music scene in London where he truly took off.
His ability to make a completely unique performance out of simple melodies and chord progressions like the kind seen in 'Hey Joe' is what I believe rocketed his fame in Britain, which was only about to get bigger on his return to America. Setting fire to his guitar onstage in Monteray was only the beginning of a flamboyant image Jimi would convey as a musical act.
This considered, he had a dual-personality, and performing on stage was his chance to escape from his deep social insecurities and be free:
"When I bite the strings with my teeth on stage I do it because I feel like it." 
A musician who wasn't afraid to do what he felt.

Taken to Musical Heights by Jake Bugg's Performance at Bournemouth International Centre

Standing in the huge hall of the Bournemouth International Centre, the music began with a folk band from Ohio and their first performance in the UK. They were skilled, they could pluck really fast, but I knew everyone was waiting for the main act, not the build up- and I think they knew it too.
When the man himself, Jake Bugg entered the stage, he entered modestly, wearing a modest black T-Shirt, Jeans and not afraid to casually tune his guitar in front of the anticipating crowd. But when the show started, the true range of his musical style and roller coaster ride of emotions from both his old and new album burst into action with the upbeat Trouble Town. No bullshit. This guy meant business from the off.
After sifting smoothly through life-affirming songs like Simple as This and the famous Two Fingers and showing off his signature strumming across the neck style with his accompanying drum and bass, he switched to solo acoustic on his humble guitar. To really hit home the range of his musical style, everyone in the audience sung along to his sweet, mellow Country Song, and stood enthralled by other new ones as images of walking through countryside and pine tree forests glided into mind.
As the show drew to a close, his penultimate song; a truly original cover of folk rock legend Neil Young's Hey Hey My My, preceded what can only be described as the perfect choice for a final song- the first song on the album that everyone knows and drew attention to this individual artist in the first place; Lighting Bolt. One which struck every audience member at the Bournemouth International Centre that night.