A guitar set on fire by Jimi Hendrix during a performance was sold for £280,000 after it was found in a garage where it had been lain for 40 years. The blazing guitar was a stunt, designed to generate publicity for Hendrix (he was then a relative unknown on the swinging sixties scene).

Today is March 1st St. David's day, the national day of Wales, when all Welshmen wear a daffodil (the national flower) and sing the national anthem "Mae Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau" (the old land of my fathers).

The rights to the songs of Jimi Hendrix have been sold for $15 million to a private bidder. The un-named person bought the rights from the estate of Mike Jeffrey, Jimi's manager. The somewhat mysterious Mike Jeffrey died in a plane crash three years after Jimi's own tragic death.