Lynne Randell was part of The Jimi Hendrix Experience in the summer of 1967 as they were together with The Sundowners the support act for The Monkees Tour in the summer of 1967, Here below you can read her "Experience" during Tour in her own words.
Lynne Randall was born in Britain on December the 14th 1949 in the town of Liverpool.
When she was 5 years old she moved with her parents to Australia.
In early 1965 Lynne changed her last name from Randall to Randell.
Lynne was 5'3" [160 cm] Blond hair and Green eyes, When she went to New York she was 17 years young.
There on the other side of the world in a world in the summer of love with drugs and Flower Power.
In Melbourne Australia at the age of 57 she sadly passed away on June the 8th 2007.
[Last update December 19th 2010]
This page will talk about a small part of Lynne Randell her life:
We pick it up around the summer of 1967.
Sven Libroek was a producer at CBS in Australia and with the ballad "Heart" and "Going Out Of My Mind" Lynne Randell was at the Top 20.
The Go - Set from April 13th 1966 with Lynne Randell in the front cover.
And with the Go-Set's [October 5th 1966] award of "Top Pop Girl Singer" she went of to New York to meet executiver of Epic Records.
[Lynne Randell won for the second time the Go-Set's [August 9th 1967] award of "Top Pop Girl Singer", In 1968 Lynne Randell was 2nd, In 1969 5th].
"I got to America just as The Monkees were breaking" [Lynne Randell recalls].
Lynne Randell in her own words:
Carol West and a couple of guys from the William Morris agency took me along to the Basin Street East Club to see Dusty Springfield and Davey Jones was there.
I was writing about my adventures in Americaand England [where I had performed at the Cavern Club] for Go-Set magazine back home , so I asked one of the agents to take a note to Davey asking if I could interview him for an Australian pop paper.
He sent his assistant over to my table to collect me and I joined him and his date in a Hansom cab ride around Central Park.
The girl was a school teacher called Carole Bayer, who was writing songs between classes.
The love story between Lynne Randell and Davey Jones of The Monkees:
When Davey Jones discovered that Lynne Randell was a singer he instructed het to present herself at the Sherry Netherlands Hotel the next morning, were she was introduced to pherhaps the most powerful figure in the whole teen idol business 16 Magazine editor Gloria Stavers.
Lynne Randell in her own words:
Gloria Stavers pulled out a camera at the meeting and took a shot of Davy Jone with my head on his shoulders, which found its way all over the world and had labelled a "Monkee girlfriend forever".
At Davey Jones his request Gloria Stavers gave me a lot of exposure.
She portrayed me as friend andbuddy of the group rather than a serius girlfriend and thus an enemy, which really became importent a few months later.
Lynne Randell flew back to Australia and scored a top ten hit with the American - recorded "Ciao Baby".
Given the chance to return stateside for more recordings she called Davey Jones and was invited tostay in his Hollywood apartment.
Davey Jones:
Jimi Hendrix, after seeing him in about 8 or 12 shows or whatever it was, it was like, 'Wow, what was this all about ?!'.
He toured with us and we had a great time, socially.
And then his record broke and off he went.
The Fifth Dimension were with The Monkees.
We sang with Marilyn McCoo.
Lulu came from England.
And Lynn Randell from Australia.
We sang with Tina Turner.
We had all these different people coming, opening our shows.
It was bizarre.
Mike Nesmith probably was the influence for that.
Lynne Randell in her own words:
He [Davey Jones] picked me up at the airport and we went through a wild romance that seemed to last aminute or two.
I had to be careful becouse I was aminor and we both had morality clauses in our contracts; everybody did then.
After a couple of days he told me that he had identical twin showgirls from Las Vegas coming over to stay and I would have to move out, which came as a bit of a shock.
Lynne Randell about Peter Tork:
Peter Tork heard about it and asked me to go stay at his house.
Stephen Stills was also staying there and he kept us up for nights trying to write a follow - up to "For What It's Worth".
Peter and I became great friends other than lovers and he came up with the idea of getting me on as support act for there Wichita and Hollywood Bowl shows.
Peter Tork:
Look, I'll go into the office and tell them to book you and I'll get the midget to back me up - he owes you a favour for kicking you out for the twins.
Carol West [left] Jimi Hendrix [right].
Lynne Randell in her own words:
I don't think the midget really went to bat for me but I got to do the shows anyway.
Peter Tork was so exited that when I went down well in Wichita he was standing sidestage almost in tears.
The kids treaded me really well becouse Gloria Stavers had been telling them all that I was one of them, so they were envious rather than jealous of me.
Davey Jones [The Monkees] seen on the back, And The Jimi Hendrix Experience.
But the story goes on:
Lynne Randell went over so well on the three Monkees concerts during May / June that she was invited to open for the superstar quartet's first full - scale American concert tour, commencing July 7 1967 at Braves Stadium in Altanta, Georgia.
In Wichita she had gone on stage before The Fith Dimention and in Hollywood before the fiery Ike & Tina Turner Revue but on this outing she was the piper at the gates of hell.
Lynne Randell at the foreground, infront of her Peter Tork, next to Jimi Hendrix on the right Mike Nesmith, the guy in the white shirt might be Chas Chandler, the rest ?.
Then there is The Jimi Hendrix Experience:
After Lynne's sweet opening set, the tender teens were not so much shocked as puzzled by the loud and heavily sexual act of The Jimi Hendrix Experience.
The Monkees fans were amused by the Wild Man of Borneo untill he started to burn his guitar.
"Mommy, mommy there's a fire on stage"they cried, clinging tightly to an outraged parent.
Lynne Randell was only able to open for The Jimi Hendrix Experience for a half dozen dates.
Lynne Randell in her own words:
In Greenboro, North Carolina he gave the audience the finger halfway through his set, issued an expletive and stormed off stage.
[Lynne Randell mentions Greenboro as the day [July 12th 1967] Jimi Hendrix stept off the stage, its not clear of the "finger incedent" the last concert was that The Jimi Hendrix played on The Monkees Tour but the LAST date that The Jimi Hendrix played was July 16th 1967].
Australian journalist Lillian Roxon, travelling with Lynne Randell and Carol West, concocted a press release claming Jimi Hendrix withdrawal was as a result of complaints from "The Doughters Of The American Revolution".
The sham could only be helpfull to his image so he never bothered denying it; though he did say in one post - tour interview.
"There was a fantastic girl singer on the tour called Lynne Randell."
"The world will be hearing a lot more of her".
His endorsement was kind if not completely accurate.
To The Cherokees.
Lynne Randell in her own words:
The tour was no fun after Jimi Hendrix left.
Everybody on the tour loved him becouse he really was nothing like his image.
After Monterey Peter Tork had asked me to come with Micky to the Whisky to see the Experience and I just could't believe what I was seeing or hearing.
Before that, I'd never wanted to stand up on top of a table and screem.
On tour Jimi Hendrix was like a big brother to me.
Early on one of the plane engines caught fire when we were about to take off so I stood up on my seat and yelled
"Remember the Big Bopper !"
That really broke him up and we became close friends.
We would spend a lot of time together while the Monkees were off doing interviews becouse nobody was game enough to try to talk to Jimi Hendrix.
Underneath that afro was a real ordinary American.
I expected him to talk in tougues but all he wanted to talk about was Australia - koolas, kangeroos, all that stuff.
He came back to New York with us after he quit and a whole bunch of us went to the Electric Circus to see The Seeds.
There was Jimi Hendrix, Davy Jones , Peter Tork, Micky Dolenz, publicist Marilyn Schlossberg, Steve Stills, Michael Graber the hairdresser, Dino Danelli from The Rascals, Henry Ditz the photographer, and me [Lynne Randell].
They really were afwul, kind of like a Monty Python parody of an acid rock band.
Jimi didn't notice it much though becouse he was tripping very badly.
I was so innocent then that I didn't know half of what was going on.
Jimi never tried to touch me and I didn't find out that he had a thing for white young blonde girls untill I took one to hospital that he had beaten up a couple of years later.
Marilyn Schlossberg. 
Henry Ditz photographer.
Lynne was on the private jet for the entire tour andhas difficulty separating one outrageous incident from another on what was essentially on airborne orgy.
Becouse I was kind of straight, nobody treid to force me into what was going on but they didn't try to hide it from me either.
Peter tried to get me to drop acid every night , he was getting really out of it.
He had this whole harem on boord with him Rachel, Karen, Susan, some indian girl and probobly some others.
Every time I'd look around they'd be giving him head or he'd be screwing the indian girl, and I'd try hard to turn beet red.
Most of the information has been taken from the inlay card of Lynne Randell her cd called: "Lynne Randell Ciao Baby".
Glenn A. Baker January 1986.
Then there is always the sad end..........
Randell went public about her methamphetamine addiction in 2004 in an interview with Peter Wilmoth of The Age.
She indicated that her adrenal glands were atrophied to about 30% function.
Tragically, Lynne was not able to beat her addiction.
She was found dead in her Toorak home on Friday 8 June 2007.
The Melbourne Herald-Sun reported that there were "no suspicious circumstances in her death".
She left a message asking for a party instead of a funeral; she had packed all her belongings in boxes and had left small gifts and letters for all her family and friends.
Lynne was survived by her son and two grandchildren, Jacob and Rachel, but in a tragic postscript to her own death, Lynne's only son Jamieson, 35, died suddenly from a brain hemorrhageonly three days after her memorial ceremony at St Kilda beach.
If you have any information regarding Lynne Randell and her involvement with The Jimi Hendrix Experience or/and The Monkees.
Then please email me at: maythisbelove@yahoo.com
Last note:
My angle on this is The Jimi Hendrix Experience, to me Lynne Randell is a support act on The Monkees Tour in the summer of 1967, a tour that lasted only 9 days [8 days of concerts] for The Jimi Hendrix Experience.
But after traveling on the internet Lynne Randell has become more then a support act, its more a little girl of 17 in a world of drugs in the middle of the Flower Power Sixties.
And then people say to you that your fat, you start taking pills that turn your world around and make an early end to your life, its a price to pay for fame.
Ben [just a Dutch Jimi Hendrix collector of 51].
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