Jimi Hendrix Estate Sues Over Royalties and Copyright
The Jimi Hendrix Experience might have split in 1969, but there’s still drama between the estates of guitarist Jimi Hendrix, bassist Noel Redding, and drummer Mitch Mitchell. The band’s rhythm section is claiming that Sony Music Entertainment and Hendrix’s estate haven’t been paying them the royalties they deserve.
In Dec. 2021, Sony Music Entertainment received a letter from British attorney Lawrence Abramson. It claims that the label owes the estates of the deceased Redding and Mitchell “performance royalties for some 3 billion streams of the Experience’s songs,” Rolling Stone wrote.
Abramson did not list a specific figure he thinks Redding and Mitchell deserves. However, he did write, “such streaming figures and sales is estimated to be in the millions of pounds.”
