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Joni Mitchell has performed at the Grammy Awards for the first time. The 80-year-old singer took to the stage at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on Sunday (04.02.24) to perform 'Both Sides Now' with her friend and collaborator Brandi Carlile, accompanied by Jacob Collier, Allison Russell, Sista Strings, Lucius and Blake Mills. The 'Big Yellow Taxi' hitmaker remained seated throughout her moving performance of the classic folk track. Brandi had introduced Joni to the stage and celebrated her friend as one of the "most influential and emotionally generous creators in human history". She said...
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Joni Mitchell is to perform at the Grammy Awards for the first time. The 80-year-old singer - who is nominated for Best Folk Album for 'Joni Mitchell at Newport' - will take to the stage at Los Angeles' Crypto.com Arena on 4 February, marking the only time she has ever sang at the annual ceremony, despite having been honoured with 10 Grammy awards in the past, including the Recording Academy's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002. The 'Both Sides Now' singer suffered a brain aneurysm in 2015 which left her unable to talk or walk for some time but in July 2022, she returned to the stage for her f...
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Sinéad O’Connor thought ageing rockers including Roger Waters were “old farts”. The ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ singer, found dead in London on 26 July aged 56, was one of a string of A-list guests who played with the Pink Floyd frontman, 79, at an iconic gig in Berlin in 1990 when he mounted a rendition of the band’s landmark album ‘The Wall’. Roger told ‘Uncut’ magazine in a 2008 interview that has resurfaced since Sinéad’s death about how she wound him up with her attitude to the old rockers she joined at the concert, including The Band, when she was aged 24: “She was so worried that there weren...
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Miquita Oliver thinks “it’s so sexy to get dressed for a fiver”. The Oxfam ambassador loves getting ready for the night on the town with charity shop finds and wants everyone to be able to get comfortable finding their fashion fix in amongst some of the high street's cast offs. The 38-year-old television presenter told the Guardian newspaper’s Saturday magazine: “I think it’s so sexy to get dressed for a fiver”. To mark Secondhand September, Miquita took her mother, ‘The Great British Menu’ presenter Andi Oliver, 58, and her 84-year-old grandmother Maria to find some cute bargains that don’t a...
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Joni Mitchell "wasn't sure" she would still be "good" on stage. The 78-year-old singer suffered a brain aneurysm in 2015 which left her unable to talk or walk for some time but on Sunday (24.07.22), she returned to the stage for her first full show since 2000 when she joined Brandi Carlile at the Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island. Joni was apprehensive about the show but was thankful she didn't "sound too bad". Speaking to CBS News after the show, she said: "I've never been nervous about being in front of an audience, but I wanted to be good and I wasn't sure that I could be. But I didn't ...
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Spotify is still trying to gauge the ramifications of 'The Joe Rogan Podcast' controversy. The streaming platform recently came under fire after two guests voiced views that contradicted the advice of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Spotify's chief executive Daniel Ek told investors: "Usually when we've had controversies in the past, those are measured in months, not days." A number of big-name stars - including Neil Young and Joni Mitchell - have already asked for their music to be removed from the platform in light of the controversy. However, Ek insisted that the company ...
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Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson is "looking forward" to going on Joe Rogan's podcast. The 'Jungle Cruise' actor has lent his support to the controversial broadcaster, who responded to artists such as Neil Young and Joni Mitchell requesting their music be withdrawn from Spotify in protest at the coronavirus misinformation allegedly being spread by his podcast by pledging to make changes to offer more "balanced" opinions. Dwayne has praised Joe for his "great" response to the criticism he's faced and offered to be a guest on 'The Joe Rogan Experience'. He wrote in the comments of Joe's video post addr...
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Joe Rogan is "very sorry" Neil Young pulled his music from Spotify. The 54-year-old broadcaster's controversial podcast, 'The Joe Rogan Experience', has sparked a wave of artists, including the 'Heart of Gold' hitmaker, threatening to boycott the streaming service in protest about it spreading coronavirus and vaccine misinformation and Joe has insisted he "most certainly doesn't want" that to happen. In a lengthy Instagram video, he said: “Now, because of this controversy … Neil Young has removed his music from the platform of Spotify and Joni Mitchell and apparently some other people want to ...
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Bruce Springsteen's guitarist, Nils Lofgren, has joined the musicians boycotting Spotify. The 70-year-old rocker, who is also a member of Crazy Horse, the band that released a number of albums as Crazy Horse and Neil Young, is following in the footsteps of the latter and other well-known stars, who asked for their music to be removed from the streaming platform amid calls for Joe Rogan's controversial podcast to be dropped for giving false information regarding the coronavirus vaccine. According to TMZ, the E Street Band member said: "A few days ago, my wife Amy and I became aware of Neil and ...
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Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex have expressed "their concerns" to Spotify over misinformation spreading on the platform. Musicians, including Neil Young and Joni Mitchell, asked for their music to be removed from the app amid calls for Joe Rogan's controversial podcast to be removed for giving false information regarding the coronavirus vaccine. And now, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who set up Archewell Audio, signing an exclusive mega-money multi-year deal with the streaming giant to release a number of podcasts, have revealed they urged Spotify to help stop the "global misinfo...
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