Joni Mitchell

In a recent interview, having branded Madonna as ‘like Nero’ and Grace Slick and Janis Joplin, effectively,  as drunken slags, when the subject of Bob Dylan was raised, the usually retiring Joni branded the icon ‘a plagiarist, dismIssing both his name and voice as fake. Come on! With an eye on a rock stardom, would anyone stick with Bob Zimmerman as a handle? As for that voice; fake? Why affect an adenoidal whine that, at times, sounds like a Strimmer on the blink? If he’s such a plagiarist, don’t go covering various Dylan tracks such as Mr Tambourine Man, Joni! Could the lady's pique stem from rumours that, with Mitchell present, Dylan pretended to fall asleep, snoring, when previewing her Court and Spark album in 1974? Let’s hope that if the pair ever meet in France, they kiss (and make up) on Main street.