Meticulously researched and based on more than three-hundred interviews with those who knew him best, a landmark book recounts the entire arc of the guitar legend's life, from his troubled childhood in Seattle's projects to his struggles against racial prejudice as a young musician and his rapid ascent to the top amidst the swinging London scene, and finally to headlining Woodstock in 1969 and his death a year later. 75,000 first printing.