Jimi Hendrix: Searching out the rock star's Yorkshire gigs from a hotel in Ilkley to a ballroom in Hull

The Handel & Hendrix Museum cares for the Mayfair flat Hendrix lived in at the height of his fame, alongside the adjoining property of the great baroque composer G.F. Handel.

Now there is to be a new exhibition about Hendrix's music and influence, featuring personal mementos, photographs and memories from his many gigs or events on tour.

As well as Ilkley there are at least six venues across Yorkshire where Hendrix is known to have played, and the hope is that somebody may still remember.

Simon Daniels is director of the museum trust. He said what stands out about Hendrix today is his universal appeal across generations.

"Jimi Hendrix was an amazing musician, with a magnetic personality that really comes across with all his energy," said Mr Daniels. "He was almost an other-worldly character, in some ways in the 1960s, with his flamboyancy of dress and the flamboyancy of his music.

"We really want to get memories and photographs and stories, that are evocative from the time that he was alive. If people had photographs of him that are new it would be an incredible find."

The museum cares for a flat at 23 Brook Street where Hendrix lived with his girlfriend Kathy Etchingham in 1968-69, before his death in 1970 aged 27, as well as Handel's home at number 25.

Reopening in May after a £3m refurbishment, there will be a new exhibition alongside a documentary film capturing memories. The belief is that from Woodstock to the Isle of White, and from these seven known venues in Yorkshire, some people may still have photographs or crowd shots they can share.

He is known to have played at Hull's Skyline Ballroom, Kirklevington Country Club, Leeds' Odeon Theatre, Sheffield's City Hall and Mojo A Go Go, and York University's Langwith College.

In Ilkley he appeared at the Troutbeck Hotel (now a nursing home) in March 1967. It didn't end well, with police closing the show citing crowd safety concerns.

Mr Daniels said: "We want to capture these memories, to give that sense of time and place, and these amazing things he inspired. We can still see this in his legacy today."He was this huge personality and amazing musician and a superstar - but he was living above a cafe in Mayfair, in a one-bed flat owned by his girlfriend. At the time he was the highest paid rock musician in London. There is a striking humility about him. There isn't the airs and graces that we might expect, from a superstar of that time."