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Rock legend Jimi Hendrix pretended he was gay to get out of the US Army, a new biography reveals.

Publicly, Hendrix always claimed he was discharged after breaking his ankle on a parachute jump, but his medical records do not mention such an injury.

In regular visits to the base psychiatrist at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, in spring 1962, Hendrix complained that he was in love with one of his squad mates, Cross writes.

Finally, Capt John Halbert recommended him for discharge, citing his “homosexual tendencies� – four years before Arlo Guthrie suggested that path for avoiding military service in the protest song, Alice’s Restaurant.

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