He was a foreigner and a musical genius loved by the British, who lived for some time in London. But what else has George Frederic Handel got in common with James Marshall Hendrix?
An English Heritage blue plaque is the answer. The German composer's residence for 36 years in Brook Street, Mayfair already displays one. The house next door - Jimi's pad for 18 months at the end of the Sixties and now part of the Handel museum - will get one next year when work on the buildings is due for completion.
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