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  • Joni Mitchell, Gordon Lightfoot, and Revolver

    From nyarlathotep1@nyarlathotep1@hotmail.com (Norbert) to rec.music.beatles on Mon Apr 7 09:31:16 2025
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    In the 1960s, Joni and Chuck Mitchell had a 5th floor apartment in
    Detroit which served as a musical salon. Musicians passing through town
    would stop in and debut their new songs for each other. One such
    performer was Gordon Lightfoot. When the Mitchells embarked on a tour,
    they invited Lightfoot to stay at their place -- with one condition: He
    had to listen their copy of the Beatles' Revolver. "And I did,"
    Lightfoot recalled later. "It was such a damned good album that I got
    hooked. So Joni got me turned on to the Beatles, which I'd been
    resisting."

    -- From Nicholas Jennings' Lightfoot biography
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