Here in Australia, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is copping a bit of media flack for not knowing who Jimi Hendrix is. He's alleged to have confessed he had no idea who the legendary guitarist was. This shocking incident occurred a few years before Rudd ascended to the highest office in the land.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,26244891-2,00.html?from=public_rss

Personally, rather than being outraged at this lack of rock 'n' roll knowledge I find it kind of endearing. When was it decided that politicians had to know such things? It's better than the sight of Gordon Brown pretending he loves the Arctic Monkeys in a desperate bid for a bit of street cred. I blame Tony Blair. For everything.

Coincidentally, the leader of the Australian Greens Party, Bob Brown (no, not that Bobby Brown...), knows exactly who Jim Hendrix was. In September 1970, Brown was working as an intern at St Mary Abbots Hospital in Kensington and witnessed the already dead body of Hendrix arriving in casualty.

http://theorstrahyun.blogspot.com/2009/07/bob-brown-on-claims-jimi-hendr...

Proof that truth is indeed stranger than fiction. Or something.