[Joni] Mitchell Mourns The Loss Of Sixties' Dream

Mitchell Mourns The Loss Of Sixties' Dream

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17/01/2008

Folk singer JONI MITCHELL is disappointed her 1960s dream of changing
the world failed to inspire any real progress. The Big Yellow Taxi
hitmaker applauded attitudes in the sixties but criticised the
'hippie' generation for failing to make good on their promises of
world peace - giving in to material greed instead. She says, "My
generation was ready to change the world but when the baton was
passed on in the seventies (the hippie movement) fell into a mass
depression. "We degenerated into the greediest generation - the
hippie, yippie, yuppie transition from the sixties to the seventies
to the greedy eighties. "My generation dropped the baton and spawned
this lacklustre generation."

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