In a story that rocketed round the web and traditional media last month, Rock Radio told how James "Tappy" Wright was the only witness when Jimi Hendrix manager admitted to having murdered the guitarist.
Wright, who worked with the Animals, Hendrix, Herman’s Hermits and others, has told how businessman Mike Jeffrey, who later died in a plane crash, spilled the beans over a drink in his office.
In his book
Rock Roadie, published on July 2,
Wright says: "
Mike told me: 'I had to do it, Tappy. You understand, don't you? You know damn well what I'm talking about. We went round to the hotel room, got a handful of pulls and stuffed them into his mouth, then poured a few bottles of red wine deep into his windpipe. That son of a bitch was going to leave me. If I lost him, I'd lose everything.'"
While the revelations don’t form a complete case against Jeffrey, Wright supplies more circumstantial evidence in his background material. He explains: "The truth was that Mike Jeffrey was ex-Secret Service and hadn’t forgotten his training."
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