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In April 2000 the song was performed by Elton John at an all-star celebration of Mitchell, at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City, presented by the TNT network.JoJo who changed the title to "White Girl in Paris".Sufjan Stevens (on the album A Tribute to Joni Mitchell).till 1982 when it was replaced with Saturday Report. Many can't get that line, 'You don't know what you've got till it's gone' - from 'Big Yellow Taxi' - out of their heads.

In the 1970s, an instrumental version of the song was the theme music used for CBC Television's The Saturday Evening News, which aired at 6 p.m. Joni Mitchell's health crisis - the Canadian songwriter was found unconscious March 31 in her Los Angeles home and rushed to the hospital - put a scare into legions of fans.

"Free Man in Paris" went to number 22 on the Billboard Hot 100 and to number two on the Easy Listening chart. I'm not so sure that the meaning I heard in the song was what Joni intended but I couldn't stop listening to it". Paris was, after all, where freedom and the guillotine lived side by side. For the album's liner notes, Dylan wrote: "I always liked this song because I'd been to Paris and understood what being a free man there was all about.

No one's future to decide."īillboard described it as having a "good mix of acoustic and electric instrumentals" with Mitchell's "distinctive vocals." Cash Box said that "lyrically, this is a total gem and the musical arrangement is letter perfect" and that "he melody is infectious." īob Dylan selected it for inclusion on the Starbucks compilation album Joni Mitchell: Selected Songs in 2005. Mitchell sings "I was a free man in Paris. While Geffen is never mentioned by name, Mitchell describes how he works hard creating hits and launching careers but can find some peace while vacationing in Paris.

The song is about music agent/promoter David Geffen, a close friend of Mitchell in the early 1970s, and describes Geffen during a trip the two made to Paris with Robbie and Dominique Robertson.