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Joni Mitchell: The Public Life of a Private Property

Michael Watts, The Sunday Times, 17 April 1983

One of the few pop singers for whom the term "artist" isn't just gross exaggeration, Joni Mitchell ends a British tour at Wembley next weekend. She has always matched her musical strengths with delicate, confessional lyrics; but the songs don't tell her whole story.

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