They Saw Only a Broke Kid — Then Jimi Hendrix Picked Up a $50 Guitar, That Day Changed Music Forever

London, 1967. A music shop on Denmark Street. Two workers almost turned away a young guitarist who couldn't afford to buy. They gave him five minutes with a damaged £50 Stratocaster. What happened in those two minutes changed rock history forever. An EMI producer hidden in the back of the shop heard something nobody had heard before—and Jimi Hendrix's life changed in an instant.