Are the estates of Jimi Hendrix’s bandmates entitled to royalties from the rock legend’s catalog? The thorny legal question will be decided at a trial that began this week in London’s High Court.

Court proceedings kicked off on Tuesday (Dec. 9) in long-running litigation between Hendrix’s estate and Sony Music on one side and the heirs of Hendrix’s former bandmates in The Jimi Hendrix Experience — namely bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell — on the other.

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