Joni Mitchell recently slammed Bob Dylan calling him a “fake,” a “plagarist” and insisting the music legend’s entire act is a “deception.”
During an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Mitchell’s decision to change her name from Roberta Joan Anderson was compared to Dylan dropping his birth name Robert Zimmerman.
Joni responded, “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. As for my name, my parents wanted a boy, so they called me Robert John; when I came out a girl, they just added two letter ‘A’s to that. Then I married Chuck Mitchell; I wanted to keep my maiden name – I had a bit of a following as Joni Anderson – but he wouldn’t let me.”