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The rock & roll industry is very incestuous, and we have all been close at one time or another. A lot of beautiful music and a lot of beautiful times came from that. A lot of pain, too, because, inevitably, different relationships broke up.

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Joni Mitchell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: November 7
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