Speaking of Dr Bob and The Greens....
Dr Bob Brown had some bizarre brushes with fame before returning to Tasmania.
Greens Senator Bob Brown missed becoming one of the great rock ’n’ roll trivia questions by a couple of casualty beds.
The trivia question? Who was the doctor who declared Jimi Hendrix dead?
Brown was a young medical registrar working in the casualty ward of St Mary Abbott’s Hospital in London, when an ambulance screamed to the door at 11.20am on September 18, 1970.
Brown didn’t have the time to pay much attention – he was busily trying to save the life of a man who had been run over by a train. He does remember sudden activity and the tears of a “Swedish girl” who arrived with the ambulance – it was Monika Danneman, Jimi Hendrix’s girlfriend. But it was too late. The 27-year-old African-American hailed as the world’s greatest rock guitarist was already dead – he had choked on his own vomit after a barbiturate overdose.
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