Original: Early in 1966 at the Cheetah Club on West 21st Street, Linda Keith, then girlfriend of Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, befriended Hendrix and recommended him to Stones' manager Andrew Loog Oldham and producer Seymour Stein.
Simplified: Hendrix got lucky, and in 1966, he became friends with the girlfriend of Keith Richards, guitarist for The Rolling Stones, Linda Keith.