Jimi Hendrix composed a dissonant version of the “Star Spangled Banner.” He explored the piercing dynamics of the electric guitar to implant a radical interpretation of the anthem at the close ...

These are the twin tracts of how to play “The Star-Spangled Banner” in modern America, represented by Whitney Houston’s powerhouse vocals and Jimi Hendrix’s galvanizing guitar, respectively.

Then he started to play “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Many guitar heroes have played the national anthem. Famously, Jimi Hendrix performed the song at Woodstock, delivering an iconic rendition ...

The guitar soars from the highs to lows as a ... He completes the penultimate line, “O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave,” letting the last note sustain and distort and tremble ...

Like so many famous songs of yore, "The Star-Spangled Banner" started as a poem, called “The Defence of Fort McHenry.” It was written by Francis Scott Key in 1814 during the War of 1812.

The rousing Star-Spangled Banner is arguably the US's best known and most loved song. But less well-known is the history behind it, and the fact that it was the target of vehement, outraged ...

In the summer of 1969, as the Vietnam War raged, Jimi Hendrix stepped onto the Woodstock  stage and bent the US national ...

That didn't scare off Stephen Wilson Jr., who delivered an understated but hypnotic version of "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the 2025 ... himself on acoustic guitar. Wilson began the performance ...

“The Star-Spangled Banner is a symbol of American history that ranks with the Statue of Liberty and the Charters of Freedom,” said Brent D. Glass, the museum’s then-director, in 2007.

Jimi Hendrix composed a dissonant version of the “Star Spangled Banner.” He explored the piercing dynamics of the electric guitar to implant a radical interpretation of the anthem at the close ...