Joni and me...

It was happy birthday to Joni Mitchell on 7th November. The Grande Dame of singer-songwriting is 80 years old, which is hard to believe, as in my head she is somewhere between 20 and 50, which is the period of my own life when she was so obviously singing ALL ABOUT ME.

I first came to Joni in my teens, in the early 1970s. Like many a teenager prone to f…