Joni Mitchell has spoken out against the Sixties' culture of free love. In an interview published in the new issue of Uncut, Mitchell says "Free love? It's a ruse for guys. There's no such thing. "Look at the rep I got, there was a list of people whose path I crossed... in the Summer Of Love they ...
Joni Mitchell has spoken out against the Sixties’ culture of free love.
In an interview published in the new issue of Uncut, Mitchell says “Free love? It’s a ruse for guys. There’s no such thing.
“Look at the rep I got, there was a list of people whose path I crossed… in the Summer Of Love they made me into a love-bandit.
“So much for free love. Nobody knows more than me what a ruse that was. That was for guys coming out of Prohibition. It was hard to get laid before that.”
Mitchell – who turns 70 today [November 7] – discusses her extraordinary career in the interview, including her thoughts on contemporaries Bob Dylan, the Woodstock generation, and her landmark 1971 album, Blue.
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