Excerpt:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_View_%E2%80%93_UCLA_Medical_Center
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http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tribune_Company
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Joel_M._Geiderman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqZlTcrJToo
Excerpt:
It's a song about a young David Geffen. He later signed both a middle-aged 1970's John Lennon and unheard 1980's Kurt Cobain to his label. I don't hold a high opinion of him--I think Geffen "milled" artists, ambivalent to their drug use and emotional breakdowns. Like Dylan and so many other baby boomers, he seemed to start as one thing and then finish as its opposite. Nonetheless, this is a really nice song.
http://jonimitchell.com/music/song.cfm?id=201
Free Man In Paris
by Joni Mitchell
The way I see it he said
You just can't win it
Everybody's in it for their own gain
You can't please 'em all
There's always somebody calling you down
I do my best
And I do good business
There's a lot of people asking for my time
They're trying to get ahead
They're trying to be a good friend of mine
I was a free man in Paris
I felt unfettered and alive
There was nobody calling me up for favors
And no one's future to decide
You know I'd go back there tomorrow
But for the work I've taken on
Stoking the star maker machinery
Behind the popular song
I deal in dreamers
And telephone screamers
Lately I wonder what I do it for
If l had my way
I'd just walk through those doors
And wander
Down the Champs Elysées *
Going cafe to cabaret
Thinking how I'll feel when I find
That very good friend of mine
I was a free man in Paris
I felt unfettered and alive
Nobody was calling me up for favors
No one's future to decide
You know I'd go back there tomorrow
But for the work I've taken on
Stoking the star maker machinery
Behind the popular song
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