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...only with her celluloid idol James Dean. But Mrs. Anderson's girl turned out different from most of the teen-agers living for the rock-'n'-roll scene. She learned to play the guitar and discovered that she had a fluent talent for words. Today, as Joni Mitchell, she is a creative force of unrivaled stature in the mercurial world of rock. Help Me, a single released this year, has already sold 800,000 copies. Sales of her first six albums total 4.6 million copies. The newest, Miles of Aisles, released last month, was a gold record...
...rock fan [June 24]. But wait a minute-I have grown up with two professional musicians (classical and jazz) in my family, so I should also be a Listener, especially since my favorite group is the Moody Blues, right? But then my favorite solo artists are Cat Stevens and Joni Mitchell, and I love romantic ballads and such, so I'm a Squeaky Clean also. What an identity crisis, I'm telling...
SQUEAKY CLEANS. A description used by Singer Bette Midler to characterize fans of the soft, often poetic songs of such bards as Cat Stevens, James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Melanie. This is an orderly dating crowd in its late teens and early 20s who are interested in love songs. Girls generally outnumber the boys by 2 to 1. Melanie's ethereal fans tend to invade the stage, only to sit quietly at her feet, perhaps lighting candles. Mitchell's following emulates her. "Since Joni started wearing gowns," says Wolf, "the girls have started wearing dresses and makeup...
...July 1973, it was barely breaking even. Geffen merged Elektra with his small Asylum label, dropped 25 of the 35 Elektra recording artists, fired Elektra's art director and the entire publicity, promotion and production staffs. Then he spirited Dylan away from Columbia, the Band from Capitol and Joni Mitchell from Warner Bros, (a separate subsidiary of Warner Communications). In 1973, the first year of Geffen's tenure, Elektra-Asylum sales were $18 million; so far this year sales have already hit $7 million...
Geffen was made an agent within 18 months, and left three years later to become a talent manager in Hollywood. Unable to impress film stars, he turned to rock titans, built up a solid list of clients (Joni Mitchell; Laura Nyro; Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young) and made his first million at age 25. Geffen launched the Asylum label with $400,000 in savings in 1971, and a year later sold out to Warner for $5 million. Though he dresses casually, shaves irregularly and speaks with an un-promoter-like politeness, Geffen drives himself uncompromisingly. "I have the demonstration records...