Joni Mitchell’s “Woodstock” became one of the defining anthems of the 1969 music festival—yet she never attended the event. Instead, Mitchell wrote the song based on stories from her then-boyfriend ...

The Woodstock festival of 1969 remains one of the biggest events in rock ’n’ roll history, with around 500,000 people flooding a dairy farm in Bethel, New York, to see the likes of Janis Joplin and ...

Under different circumstances, Joni Mitchell probably would’ve been at Woodstock. However, as fate would have it, the rising Canadian star was making her Dick Cavett Show debut right after the ...

Mitchell was given a recount of the festival from then-boyfriend Graham Nash. Then, she wrote the song in her hotel room while watching reports of the festival on TV. Despite not attending the ...

In mid-August 1969, hundreds of thousands of people swarmed Max Yasgur’s Farm in upstate New York to attend the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, but Joni Mitchell sadly wasn’t one of them. Despite being ...

On this day (August 19) in 1969, Joni Mitchell made her first U.S. TV appearance on The Dick Cavett Show. The memorable episode also featured some of Mitchell’s musical friends and contemporaries, the ...