Everyone knows Joni Mitchell. She’s the singer of Love Actually tear-jerkers, the one-time lover of Leonard Cohen, and a Canadian hippie prairie waif. Put on
Quentin Tarantino doesn’t like hippies. And it is easy to see why: middle-class runaways swiping credit cards from unsuspecting folk to fund cultish penury in
Playboys. Remember them? When I was growing up, playboys were glamorous figures. You could never hope to meet them, but you knew everything about them
Veteran CNN reporter David Axelrod recently described 1968 as a time of “chaos in black and white”. After the optimistic psychedelia of the previous year,
Joan Baez had to grow up in public. At the age of 18, she played in front of 10,000 people at the Newport Folk Festival.
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