Joni Mitchell - Both Sides Now (Live At The Isle Of Wight Festival 1970)

Joni Mitchell - Both Sides Now (Live At The Isle Of Wight Festival 1970)

Academy Award-Winning Director Murray Lerner (Mao To Mozart, Festival!) creates a masterful addition to the Isle of Wight canon of films with Joni’s excellent performance.

The concert/documentary film features Joni Mitchell in a modern interview, explaining the events and her reactions. The complete performance is also intercut with vintage footage from the festival attendees and the promoters to give better context to Joni’s personal recollections from the Isle of Wight in what is one of the most unique and memorable performances of the era.

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[marywatson]

So glad she won a award at the Grammy tonight what a legend even in 2024

[mellow-jello]

52 years later, young Joni Mitchell will realize her most emotional rendition of this song at Newport. Life is beautiful at 26, only to know how precious it is at 78. Life is good to have Joni Mitchell, thank you so much.

[peskyfervid]

This was a beautiful song in 1970. In 2022, When Joni sang it at Newport, it was the most heartbreakingly poignant song I've ever heard. At the same time a thing of incredible beauty and joy. Thank you, Joni, for all you've given the world.

[truvintage]

Good lord, what happened to music. What a treasure..thank you Joni Mitchell!

[theaccidentalsenior]

I hope she gets nominated for a Nobel Prize just as Dylan did. Her poetry and talent is definitely comparable.

[germcmahon]

I'm 70 years old and still listening. Thank you.

[joeq.public]

One of the best voices you'll ever hear in folk music

[sudipchatterjee]

Perhaps the most beautiful song ever written and sung! ❤❤❤❤❤

[markdubeau]

as a Canadian, i beam with a sad kind of pride. Something in the water, the winter, the empty cold nights that brings out the soul in our singer-songwriters. Joni, Leonard, Gordon, Neil, the list goes on... we hold them dear to our hearts.

[jonbowden]

Dad liked Joni Mitchell... and I wish he was still here for me to tell him how right he was in his appreciation, and how I share it now, 45 years later.

[junkyarddog]

To write a song like this at 25/26 with such a wisdom, optimism and pessimism of someone so young, the kind of song you’d expect somebody twice that age to write and be reflecting on life - and then to perform and nail it so perfectly in front of god knows how many people with such conviction. It just blows me away.

[tedpetebarnard]

Listening to Joni when I was 21 and then again today at 73. What a magic gift this woman is. Like most of us, aged now, she is overcoming and still a marvel. Thank you Joni for all the music. You are still in our hearts, our children's hearts, and their children.

[Klstfcm]

I have no words whenever I hear her play, so I'll just list the things that shock and move and leave me in awe in her:
- chord arrangements, melodies out of this world;
- her unique guitar playing suited for her genius alternative tunings; her piano arrangements;
-learning to play the dulcimer like no other at her time and making it a thing of tremendous beauty ('a case of you', amirite?);
- the beautiful pictures she paints in people's minds with her precise and incisive words;
- her beautiful ethereal, happy and mournful voice.

The fact that she is physically stunning is not even relevant when faced with this level of genius.
And the fact that she's a painter first? She's just too much. We just have to be thankful for everything she's shared with us and try to learn a little from it, and try and steer this world towards a better, gentler place - which I think is her greatest desire in creating her music.

So, thank you sweet Joni for all. May you live until 120!

[sophiew]

I don't know why but this song always brings a year to my eye..makes me remember the past and friends no.longer here 😢😢

[wb]

The audio and video quality on this is incredible for a live festival performance from 1970; bravo to whoever was responsible for the soundmixing that day!!!

[gayrobbins]

This woman has a gift from God and is a gift.

[joemulder]

Someone had to face “The Beast” to tell the story of finding inner peace while living in a hostile world, thank you Joni…we love you!

[postie]

It's so amazing she has shown up at Newport festival to perform. Listen to how quiet the festival crowd is... remember this is 1970...the height of electric blues rock bands, pro, etc, and she commands attention with her shining talent!

[cgrscott]

Hearing Joni sing this song in her 80s made me want to go back and hear her sing it while she was in her prime. This song pushes childhood memory buttons.

[robynjustrobyn]

I love this so much. A real star doesn't need to be plastered in makeup and sequins. So beautiful and one of the most talented musicians ever.