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"I didn't want anyone to know it was me": On being Joni Mitchell's 'Carey'

Kate Mossman, New Statesman, 17 December 2021

For 50 years, the "mean old daddy" immortalised in one of Mitchell's best-loved songs has been an enigma. Now he tells his side of the story.

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