5. “Woodstock”
Yes, the song made famous by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, “Woodstock,” was written by Joni Mitchell. She wrote the song from recollections of the festival by Graham Nash, her then boyfriend, and from TV news reports she watched from her New York hotel room as the festival took place. She had been invited to Woodstock, but her manager was afraid she would miss her scheduled appearance on The Dick Cavett Show if she went.
Mitchell said of the song and the festival, "The deprivation of not being able to go provided me with an intense angle on Woodstock….Woodstock, for some reason, impressed me as being a modern miracle, like a modern-day fishes and loaves story. For a herd of people that large to cooperate so well, it was pretty remarkable and there was a tremendous optimism. So I wrote the song ‘Woodstock’ out of these feelings, and the first three times I performed it in public, I burst into tears, because it brought back the intensity of the experience and was so moving.”
Mitchell released the song on her 1970 album Ladies of the Canyon, around the same time that CSNY released their rock version as a single from their album Deja Vu.
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