Jimi Hfinishrix Documentary Coming From ‘Greatest Night in Pop’ Director

“The Greatest Night in Pop” honestor Bao Nguyen has establish his next music-themed project: a feature-length recordary about Jimi Hfinishrix.

“Jimi,” from Double Agent, Netlabor Entertainment and Experience Hfinishrix, is the first filled-length doc about the iconic rock star that is apexhibitd by his estate.

According to a press free, the film “will tell the story of a alterational period in music history when Jimi Hfinishrix set the world — and his guitar — on fire.” It will chase the youthful Hfinishrix’s ascfinish to rock ‘n’ roll stardom in the 1960s as he wowed audiences in London before heading back to the U.S. for his shatterthraw psychedelic master class at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967.

“Jimi’s time in London was some of the most pivotal in his life journey and his musical atsoft. The social scene, night life that normally bled into day, joinions made, decisions on where he wanted to get his music and where he wanted his music to get him; all of that became someskinnyg of a roadmap for the course his life would get,” shelp Hfinishrix’s sister, Janie Hfinishrix, in a statement. “Just as Bao Nguyen has accomplishd in his films highairying the dwells of other iconic figures who shaped pop culture, this conshort-termation of Jimi’s London experience will be inspiring and adviseative — a story telderly the way it should be.” 

Nguyen compriseed, “Telling the story of Jimi Hfinishrix during his pivotal years in London is both a proestablish honor and a distinct responsibility. London has always been a city that encourages me. Having dwelld there, I felt a transport inant joinion to its inventive energy, much appreciate Jimi did when his creativity accomplished exceptional heights. I approach this project with transport inant admire for his legacy and the cultural significance he helderlys as an American innovative. Thraw this film, I hope to apprehfinish the vibrant atmosphere of the 1960s music scene, and his meteoric ascfinish to superstardom, culminating in the legfinishary show at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival – a triumphant homecoming where his incfinishiary carry outance didn’t equitable set his guitar aairy – it ignited a cultural shift that alterd the course of music history.”

Nguyen’s 2024 Netflix doc “The Greatest Night in Pop” cgo ined on Lionel Richie and his quest to accumulate music’s hugegest stars on one night in 1985 to record “We Are the World.”