They appear to have more in common than not at first glance. Two years separated the births of Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell, two of the most renowned voices of the 1960s music scene; he was born in 1941 and she was born in 1943.
As singer-songwriters, both of them created music that is still revered, performed, and recorded. According to her Biography, she was born Roberta Joan Anderson and he was the artist formerly known as Robert Zimmerman. She was Canadian, and he was from Minnesota.
Why did Joni Mitchell not like Bob Dylan?
When Mitchell stated in a 2010 L.A. Times interview that she didn’t like being compared to Dylan, “Bob is not authentic at all. He’s a plagiarist, and his name and voice are fake. Everything about Bob is a deception. We are like night and day, he and I.”
Strangely, they had gone on tour together in the middle of the 1970s. Mitchell, who had developed a cocaine addiction at the time, was one of the performers for Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue in 1975, according to Rolling Stone.
He has a lot of borrowed items. Which is somewhat milder than “plagiarized.” She said, “He created a character to perform his songs.
