A book being released by one of Jimi Hendrix's former roadies claims Hendrix was murdered by his manager because he was about to fire him. The roadie, James 'Tappy' Wright, says manager Michael Jeffery told him, "I was in London the night of Jimi's death and together with some old friends... we went round to (Hendrix's girlfriend) Monika's hotel room, got a handful of pills and stuffed them into his mouth... then poured a few bottles of red wine deep into his windpipe. "I had to do it. Jimi was worth much more to me dead than alive. That son of a bitch was going to leave me. If I lost him, I'd lose everything." Tappy claims Jeffery had taken a 1.8 million dollar life insurance policy out on Jimi and made the drunken confession to him in 1971 - two years before Jefferey was killed in a plane crash. Jimi Hendrix, whose death has always been blamed on an accidental overdose, was found dead having choked on his own vomit in a London hotel room September 18,1970.
