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Kiwi Life New Zealand

Kiwi Life

12 June 2021

9:00 AM

12 June 2021

9:00 AM

Of the various little stories about the rather wonderful Joni Mitchell in her early years, my favourite concerns Leonard Cohen. In 1967, around the time the two Canadian songwriters were picking up speed in the music business, they met for the first time at the Newport Folk Festival. Mitchell, hair straight and blonde, was twenty-four.

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