The real Red House over yonder: Bedroom of Mayfair flat where Jimi Hendrix lived at the height of his fame is opens to the public after £2.4million restoration project

The bedroom of the flat (right) in Mayfair, London. where guitar legend Jimi Hendrix (left) stayed in the 60s is to open to the public this week after a £2.4milion restoration project

Kathy Etchingham, former girlfriend of Jimi Hendrix, poses on the bed of his flat on Brook Street, near Ocford Circus, London

Hendrix's flat (left) is in Mayfair, and is nextdoor to where baroque composer George Frideric Handel lived for 36 years in the mid-1700s

The bedroom on the third floor has undergone a £2.4million restoration to make it look as it did when Hendrix lived there in the late 60s

The adjoining room of his third-floor flat has become a museum, showing rock memorabilia from his glory days on the world stage

The covers of records he kept at the flat are also on display, and include songs from artists including Bob Dylan and Elmore James

The exhibition also tells a story, chronicling Hendrix's life during those two year in which he lived and performed in London

This is the tiny plaque outside 23 Brook Street that tells passers by that this is where Jimi Hendrix lived between 1968 and 1969

Hendrix in his trademark hat sitting in the London flat in 1969, which now looks exactly as it did when he lived there

The Handel and Hendrix trust has recreated even the finest details, from the fruitbowl on the floor to the coal burner at the fireplace

These are the replica record player and amplifier in, along with records from Fifth Dimension and blues legend John Lee Hooker

This bizarre cuddly toy (right) has been recreated, based on one that was found in the flat after his death in 1970

Even the telephones in the room are exactly the same as those seen in photos of Jimi Hendrix in the flat from the late 1960s

Despite being famous fgor his workon the electic axe, Hendrix kept an acoustic guitar in the flat, carpeted throughout with rugs

On display on his bedside table are the lyrics to Voodoo Child (pictures), a Dictaphone, a shell and a box of Benson and Hedges cigarettes, which Hendrix was known for smoking

Hendrix's trademark hat lies on some music publications from the days when he lived in London. Melody Maker was a well-known magazine read by professional and aspiring musicians

Hendrix had red bed sheets and patterned cushions on his bed, with tapestries hung on the wall of the Mayfair flat

Hendrix obviously embraced the London lifestyle, keeping a smoking jacket and even the classic board game Monopoly in the flat