Queen Joni Approximately
Mick Gold, Let It Rock, June 1974
When Joni Mitchell sang in a cinema next to Victoria Station, her entire audience fell in love with her three nights running. For weeks afterwards they discussed her performances in awed voices, using words like dignity, grace, sensitivity again and again, before noting with wonder how funky her new material sounded.
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