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Joni Mitchell
Both Sides, Now
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“Both Sides, Now” is a single by Joni Mitchell. Her recording first appeared on the album Clouds, released in 1969. She re-recorded the song in a Jazz style for the album of the same name, released in 2000.
It is one of Joni Mitchell’s best-known songs (with “Big Yellow Taxi,“ “Woodstock,“ and “A Case of You”). It was written in March 1967, inspired by a passage in Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow.
Judy Collins made the first commercially released recording of the song in 1968, shortly after Mitchell wrote it, which reached #8 on the U.S. pop singles charts and won a 1968 Grammy Award for Best Folk Performance. The record peaked at #3 on Billboard’s Easy Listening survey, and has become one of Collins’ signature songs.
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Read on...Song lines: ♪ I've looked at life from both sides now ... From up and down and still somehow ... It's life's illusions I recall ♫
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This song is listed #170 on Rolling Stone Magazine’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
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