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Hey Joni, Put It All Behind You
Apr, 25 2010
In a rare interview, legendary Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell has lambasted Bob Dylan, often said to be the greatest singer-songwriter of the twentieth century, as a "fake" and a "plagiarist."
Ironically, the outburst came as an interviewer for the L.A. Times pointed out that both revered folk artists had picked stage names, Mitchell having been born Roberta Joan Anderson and Dylan, Robert Zimmerman. "We are like night and day, he and I," she said. "Bob is not authentic at all. He's a plagiarist, and his name and voice are fake. Everything about Bob is a deception."
Mitchell was discussing the just-ending Los Angeles run of Paved Paradise: The Art of Joni Mitchell, a stage show by New York-based John Kelly in which he dresses up as Joni and performs as her. "It was like being a ghost at your own funeral," she said of the first time she watched it. "The audience responded to John as if he were me... At the end, my boyfriend yelled out, 'We love you, Joni!'"
