JONI MITCHELL - MITCHELL MOURNS THE LOSS OF SIXTIES' DREAM

Folk singer JONI MITCHELL is disappointed her 1960s dream of changing the world failed to inspire any real progress. The Big Yellow Taxi hitmaker applauded attitudes in the sixties but criticised the 'hippie' generation for failing to make good on their promises of world peace - giving in to material greed instead. She says, "My generation was ready to change the world but when the baton was passed on in the seventies (the hippie movement) fell into a mass depression. "We degenerated into the greediest generation - the hippie, yippie, yuppie transition from the sixties to the seventies to the greedy eighties. "My generation dropped the baton and spawned this lacklustre generation."