Wild Thing the Latest — and Best? — Look at the Life of Jimi Hendrix

Wild Thing: The Short, Spellbinding Life of Jimi Hendrix By Philip Norman 400 pp. $28.95 Liverlight Publications When veteran music journalist Philip Norman turns his attention to a musician, the word “definitive” is not an understatement. For while many of his subjects are themselves subjects of dozens—even hundreds—of tomes about…