She won the award on April 3, 2022. Mandy Moore covered "Help Me" in 2003. Most people agree that Joni Mitchell is one of the best musicians and songwriters ever. Chalk Mark ultimately improved on the chart performance of Dog Eat Dog, peaking at No. Joni Mitchell. She began a collaboration with Mingus, who died before the project was completed in 1979. "[122], Mitchell's work has had an influence on many other artists, including Taylor Swift,[124] Bjrk,[124] Prince,[125] Ellie Goulding, Harry Styles,[126] Corinne Bailey Rae, Gabrielle Aplin,[127] Mikael kerfeldt from Opeth,[128] Pink Floyd's David Gilmour,[129] Marillion members Steve Hogarth and Steve Rothery,[130][131] their former vocalist and lyricist Fish,[132] Paul Carrack,[133] Haim,[134] Lorde,[135] and Clairo. [115] Mitchell's last official headline shows were on the Both Sides Now tour in 2000.[116]. To celebrate her 79th birthday, here's a look back. [89] A limited-edition blue vinyl edition of Blue followed in January 2019. In a 2002 interview with Rolling Stone, she voiced discontent with the current state of the music industry, describing it as a "cesspool". Rolling Stone called her "one of the greatest songwriters ever",[2] and AllMusic has stated, "When the dust settles, Joni Mitchell may stand as the most important and influential female recording artist of the late 20th century". It received mostly strong reviews and motivated a short national tour, with Mitchell accompanied by a core band featuring her ex-husband Larry Klein on bass plus a local orchestra on each tour stop. Close to completing her contract with Asylum Records, Mitchell felt that this album could be looser in feel than any album she had done in the past. Afterwards, she drove back to California alone and composed several songs during her journey which featured on her next album, 1976's Hejira. The Joni Project Quartet, featuring Katie Pearlman, formed as a tribute in sound and spirit to Joni, and is quite simply the finest on the scene today. 6 in the UK. It gave me the bug for it. [159], On December 4, 2021, Mitchell received the Kennedy Center Honor for a lifetime of achievement in the performing arts at the Medallion Ceremony, held at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. [151], To celebrate Mitchell's 70th birthday, the 2013 Luminato Festival in Toronto held a set of tribute concerts entitled Joni: A Portrait in Song A Birthday Happening Live at Massey Hall on June 18 and 19. joebar. The Prince song "The Ballad of Dorothy Parker" contains the lyric " 'Oh, my favorite song' she said and it was Joni singing 'Help me I think I'm falling' ". While recording Court and Spark, Mitchell had tried to make a clean break with her earlier folk sound, producing the album herself and employing jazz/pop fusion band the L.A. Express as what she called her first real backing group. Performers included Rufus Wainwright, Herbie Hancock, Esperanza Spalding, and rare performances by Mitchell herself. I felt like I had absolutely no secrets from the world and I couldn't pretend in my life to be strong. [44], Mitchell left Canada for the first time in late April 1965. "[113] Songs performed included "Carey", "Come in from the Cold", "A Case of You", "Big Yellow Taxi", "Both Sides Now" and "The Circle Game". I would have to say of all the women I've heard, she had the most profound effect on me from a lyrical point of view."[137]. "Dreamland" and "The Tenth World", featuring Chaka Khan on backing vocals, were percussion-dominated tracks. Other artists who recorded Mitchell's songs in the early years were Buffy Sainte-Marie ("The Circle Game"), Dave Van Ronk ("Both Sides Now"), and eventually Judy Collins ("Both Sides Now", a top ten hit for her, and "Michael from Mountains", both included on her 1967 album Wildflowers). "[123] David Shumway notes that Mitchell "became the first woman in popular music to be recognized as an artist in the full sense of that term. Whatever Mitchell's stated views of feminism, what she represents more than any other performer of her era is the new prominence of women's perspectives in cultural and political life. [119], Mitchell was highly innovative harmonically in her early work (19661972), incorporating modality, chromaticism, and pedal points. Among the album's contributors were Norah Jones, Tina Turner, Leonard Cohen, and Mitchell herself, who contributed a vocal to the re-recording of "The Tea Leaf Prophecy (Lay Down Your Arms)" (originally on her album Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm). After World War II ended, her father worked as a grocer and her family moved to Saskatchewan, living in Maidstone and North Battleford. In 1997, Mitchell was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but did not attend the ceremony. Collins also covered "Chelsea Morning", another recording that eclipsed Mitchell's own commercial success early on. Commenting on the original mix of Song to a Seagull, Mitchell called it "atrocious" and said it sounded like it "had been recorded under a bowl of Jello. [143] Mitchell received a star on Canada's Walk of Fame in 2000. The album's first official single, "My Secret Place", was in fact a duet with Gabriel, and just missed the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Born Roberta Joan Anderson, Joni Mitchell, as she later called herself, gravitated towards music from an early age. [80], In March 2015, Mitchell suffered a brain aneurysm rupture,[81] which required her to undergo physical therapy[82] and take part in daily rehabilitation. Starting in the mid-1970s, she began working with noted jazz musicians including Jaco Pastorius, Tom Scott, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, and Pat Metheny as well as Charles Mingus, who asked her to collaborate on his final recordings. ", Mitchell's duet with The Persuasions (her opening act for the tour), bubbled under on Billboard, just missing the Hot 100. I ran into it again in Toronto." Joni's first husband, Chuck mitchell, As of january 2020, seems to be alive and well, it was announced he performed for eagle days on january 17, a whole 2 hour concert. [53] Roberts and Geffen were to have important influences on her career. The songs she wrote during the months she took off for travel and life experience appeared on her next album, Blue, released in June 1971. Joni sold a lot of albums over the course of her career. Her right-hand picking/strumming technique has evolved over the years from an initially intricate picking style, typified by the guitar songs on her first album, to a looser and more rhythmic style, sometimes incorporating percussive "slaps". In 2009, Mitchell stated she had the skin condition Morgellons[73] and that she would leave the music industry to work toward giving more credibility to people who suffer from Morgellons. A few weeks after the birth, Joni married folk-singer Chuck Mitchell. "[105][106] British National Health Service doctor and author Rachel Clarke tweeted: "Both Neil Young & Joni Mitchell know painfully well how much harm, suffering & avoidable death anti-vaxxers can cause. A year later, Mitchell played Mariposa, her first gig for a major audience, and years later Sainte-Marie herself covered Mitchell's work. Free shipping for many products! A journey into Joni Mitchell's artistry is one of a highly original, harmonically innovative, and emotionally charged, familiar yet fresh adventure. "[123], Mitchell has received many honors from her home country of Canada. He promised to help take responsibility for the child but something changed, and a few weeks later Joni gave up her daughter for adoption. Contrary to rumours regarding the song being about Mitchell's first husband Chuck Mitchell, she has said it was inspired by a conversation with fellow folk singer Patrick Sky, in which he told her "Oh, Joni, you . The early new year of 1964 brought a new Chuck single recorded at Chess Studios soon after his release from prison. She dropped out of school after a year at age 20, a decision that greatly displeased her parents, who remembered the Great Depression and valued education highly. Joni Mitchell's songs, frequently confessional, sometimes obscure, always literate and musically adventurous, form one of the most striking bodies of work in the popular music of the last three decades. [75][76] Mitchell did not explain the contention further, but several media outlets speculated that it may have related to the allegations of plagiarism surrounding some lyrics on Dylan's 2006 album Modern Times. The album climbed to No. While Mitchell was playing one night in 1967 in the Gaslight South,[50] a club in Coconut Grove, Florida, David Crosby walked in and was immediately struck by her ability and her appeal as an artist. The song "Lakota" was one of many songs on the album to take on larger political themes, in this case the Wounded Knee incident, the deadly battle between Native American activists and the FBI on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the previous decade. She said, "I made my dress and bridesmaids' dresses. The Joni Project, Fair Lawn NJ, March 4. Around this time she took a $15-a-week job in a Calgary coffeehouse called The Depression Coffee House, "singing long tragic songs in a minor key". [146], Mitchell has received ten Grammy Awards during her career (eight competitive, one honorary), the first in 1969 and the most recent in 2022. [7], Mitchell began exploring more jazz-influenced ideas on 1974's Court and Spark, which featured the radio hits "Help Me" and "Free Man in Paris"[8] and became her best-selling album. She resolved to write her own songs.[38]. Chuck Mitchell was indeed once married to Joni Anderson (Mitchell). She stated that "This album was written mostly while I was traveling in the car. In early 1983, Mitchell began a world tour, visiting Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy and Scandinavia and then going back to the United States. On "The Jungle Line", she made an early effort at sampling a recording of African musicians, something that became more commonplace among Western rock acts in the 1980s. Her 1971 album Blue is often cited as one of the best albums of all time; it was rated the 30th best album ever made in Rolling Stone's 2003 list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time",[4] rising to number 3 in the 2020 edition. She felt disillusioned about the high priority given to technical skill over free-class creativity there,[25] and felt out of step with the trend toward pure abstraction and the tendency to move into commercial art. Soon she was being managed by Elliot Roberts, who, after being urged by Buffy Sainte-Marie, had first seen her play in a Greenwich Village coffee house. She later wrote, "[He] left me three months pregnant in an attic room with no money and winter coming on and only a fireplace for heat. He is not the Chuck Mitchell that was in "Porky's" but the folksinger. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images. [158], In 2021, Mitchell was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Historical Album, for her Archives, Vol. Joni Mitchell, singer, songwriter, guitarist, painter (b at Fort Macleod, Alta 7 Nov 1943). In addition, she contended that her voice had acquired a more interesting and expressive alto range when she could no longer hit the high notes, let alone hold them as she had in her youth.[65]. Mitchell was given an ecstatic reception, and she said afterwards, "I was delighted and honoured. Mitchell hit . 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She was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1981 and received the Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement, Canada's highest honour in the performing arts, in 1996. In the United States, it premiered on Billboard's Top Albums chart at No. This is my introduction to territorial songs. [22], Mitchell contracted polio at age nine and was hospitalized for weeks. "[67] In 2005, Mitchell said that she was using a tape recorder to get her memories "down in the oral tradition". Joni Mitchell is one of the most prolific and celebrated songwriters of all time. That's my song.' Verified. She was born Roberta Joan Anderson on November 7, 1943 in Fort Macleod, Alberta in Canada. In 2008, Mitchell was ranked 42nd on Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Singers" list and in 2015 she was ranked ninth on their list of the 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time. In "Chinese Cafe", from the 1982 album Wild Things Run Fast, Mitchell sang, "Your kids are coming up straight / My child's a stranger / I bore her / But I could not raise her." [2] Mitchell expressed her dislike of the record industry's dominance and her desire to control her own destiny, possibly by releasing her own music over the Internet. Her first paid performance was on October 31, 1962, at a Saskatoon club that featured folk and jazz performers. Joni had married Chuck, a Michigan troubadour, in 1965. In tribute to Mitchell, the TNT network presented an all-star celebration at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City on April 6, 2000. Janet Jackson used a sample of the chorus of "Big Yellow Taxi" as the centerpiece of her 1997 hit single "Got 'Til It's Gone", which also features rapper Q-Tip saying "Joni Mitchell never lies". He is an iconic figure who was part of a duo that was Chuck and Joni Mitchell until their divorce. "The churches came after me", she wrote, "they attacked me, though the Episcopalian Church, which I've seen described as the only church in America which actually uses its head, wrote me a letter of congratulation."[17]. Taylor Swift also details Mitchell's departure from the music industry in her song "The Lucky One" from her 2012 album Red. [64], In February 2007, Mitchell returned to Calgary and served as an advisor for the Alberta Ballet Company premiere of "The Fiddle and the Drum", a dance choreographed by Jean Grand-Matre to both new and old songs. While. Following the 1967 divorce, Mitchell relocated to New York to pursue her musical career. Several artists have had success covering Mitchell's songs. I walked down the aisle brandishing my daisies. [37] Mitchell also began to realize each city's folk scene tended to accord veteran performers the exclusive right to play their signature songsdespite not having written the songswhich Mitchell found insular, contrary to the egalitarian ideal of folk music. Over the years Mitchell had been hosting monthly music sessions, known as 'Joni Jams', at her home in Laurel Canyon, organised with the help of singer-songwriter Carlile. She lived in a series of small towns, contracting polio during the epidemic of the 1950s that left her with scoliosis and limited strength in her left hand. Mitchell later remarked, "At that period of my life, I had no personal defenses. "[103], On January 28, 2022, Mitchell demanded that Spotify remove her songs from its streaming service in solidarity with her long-time friend and fellow polio survivor Neil Young, who removed his tracks from the streaming platform in protest against COVID-19 misinformation on the popular Spotify-hosted podcast The Joe Rogan Experience. That album, The Hottest New Group in Jazz, was hard to find in Canada, she says, "so I saved up and bought it at a bootleg price. These lyrics did not receive wide attention at the time. 2, matching Court and Spark's chart peak on Billboard. [120] On her 1968 debut album Song to a Seagull, Mitchell used both quartal and quintal harmony in "The Dawntreader" and quintal harmony in "Song to a Seagull". This character who symbolized her turn toward jazz and streetwise lyrics reappears in the concert video 'Shadows and Light', her contribution to the film anthology 'Love', and the music video for "Beat of Black Wings".[59]. Mitchell's songs were sung by many performers, including James Taylor, Elton John, Wynonna Judd, Bryan Adams, Cyndi Lauper, Diana Krall, and Richard Thompson. Other Mitchell covers include the famous "Woodstock" by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Eva Cassidy, and Matthews Southern Comfort; "This Flight Tonight" by Nazareth; and well-known versions of "A Case of You" by Tori Amos, Michelle Branch, Jane Monheit, Prince, Diana Krall, James Blake, and Ana Moura. A series of themed compilations of songs from earlier albums were also released: The Beginning of Survival (2004), Dreamland (2004), and Songs of a Prairie Girl (2005), the last of which collected the threads of her Canadian upbringing and which she released after accepting an invitation to the Saskatchewan Centennial concert in Saskatoon. 647 posts. '"[69] Early media reports characterized the album as having "a minimal feel that harks back to [Mitchell's] early work" and a focus on political and environmental issues. It was her first tour in several years, and with Pastorius, jazz guitarist Pat Metheny, and other members of her band, Mitchell also performed songs from her other jazz-inspired albums. "[34], After graduating from high school at Aden Bowman Collegiate in Saskatoon, Mitchell took art classes at the Saskatoon Technical Collegiate with abstract expressionist painter Henry Bonli[35] and left home to attend the Alberta College of Art in Calgary for the 196364 school year. "Big Yellow Taxi", the live version, was also released as a single and did reasonably well (she released another version of the song in 2007). Fans were confused over such a major change in Mitchell's overall sound, and though the album topped out at No. At the same ceremony Mitchell won a Grammy for Best Instrumental Pop Performance for the opening track, "One Week Last Summer", from her album Shine. But "I was not a part of that," she explained in an interview. 1 on the Cashbox Album Charts. Hollywood brought her dramatic life to the big screen in a film starring American singer Taylor Swift. 68, moving up to No. [31], Mitchell's approach to music struck a chord with many female listeners. A classic live coffeehouse performance of a classic song. Joni Mitchell, original name Roberta Joan Anderson, (born November 7, 1943, Fort McLeod, Alberta, Canada), Canadian experimental singer-songwriter whose greatest popularity was in the 1970s. She travelled with Chuck Mitchell to the US, where they began playing music together. We all suffer for our loneliness, but at the time of Blue, our pop stars never admitted these things. In 1995, Mitchell's friend Fred Walecki, proprietor of Westwood Music in Los Angeles, developed a solution to alleviate her continuing frustration with using multiple alternative tunings in live settings. Joni Mitchell was born in Alberta, Canada, in 1943. The controversial remark was widely reported by other media. A second plaque was installed at River Landing, near the Remai Modern art gallery and Persephone Theatre performing arts centre. She delivered the final mixes for the new album to Geffen just before Christmas, after trying nearly a hundred different sequences for the songs. [70] She worked with the French-Canadian TV director Mario Rouleau, well known for work in art and dance for television, such as Cirque du Soleil. The album Night Ride Home was released in March 1991. Delisi will spin Joni's music, and . [6] NPR ranked Blue number 1 on a 2017 list of Greatest Albums Made By Women. She invited Pastorius back, and he brought with him fellow members of jazz fusion pioneers Weather Report, including drummer Don Alias and saxophonist Wayne Shorter. Wild Things Run Fast (1982) marked a return to pop songwriting, including "Chinese Cafe/Unchained Melody", which incorporated the chorus and parts of the melody of the famous The Righteous Brothers hit, and "(You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care", a remake of the Elvis chestnut, which charted higher than any Mitchell single since her 1970s sales peak when it climbed to No. I know Chuck and have for years. That's why there were no piano songs"[26] Hejira was arguably Mitchell's most experimental album so far, owing to her ongoing collaborations with jazz virtuoso bass guitarist Jaco Pastorius on several songs, namely the first single, "Coyote", the atmospheric "Hejira", the disorienting, guitar-heavy "Black Crow", and the album's last song "Refuge of the Roads". It took going to prison in 1986 for David Crosby to finally kick drugs, but the rock legend could never quit his beloved ex Joni Mitchell. The following month, Reprise released her third album, Ladies of the Canyon. Eventually she taught herself guitar from a Pete Seeger songbook. [141], Mitchell's music and poems have deeply influenced the French painter Jacques Benoit's work. Show More Posts from jonimitchell. [144] In 2002 she was named a Companion of the Order of Canada, Canada's highest civilian honour,[145] making her only the third popular Canadian singer-songwriter (Gordon Lightfoot and Leonard Cohen being the other two) to receive this honor. [18][19] Her mother was a teacher, while her father was a Royal Canadian Air Force flight lieutenant who instructed new pilots at RCAF Station Fort Macleod. Both Sides Now (2000) was an album composed mostly of covers of jazz standards, performed with an orchestra, featuring orchestral arrangements by Vince Mendoza. Rejected from major folk clubs, she resorted to busking,[32] while she "worked in the women's wear section of a downtown department store to pay the rent. In the early 1990s, Mitchell signed a deal with Random House to publish an autobiography. [149][150], On February 12, 2010, "Both Sides, Now" was performed at the 2010 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Vancouver. "River" has been one of the most popular songs covered in recent years, with versions by Dianne Reeves (1999), James Taylor (recorded for television in 2000, and for CD release in 2004), Allison Crowe (2004), Rachael Yamagata (2004), Aimee Mann (2005), and Sarah McLachlan (2006). citizen.[46]. Selections from that night's performances were released on DVD,[93] along with a separate CD release. In June 2007 Canada Post featured Mitchell on a postage stamp. I knew every word to Court and Spark; I worshipped her when I was in high school. Your body may be trying to tell you something. The album also contained remakes of "A Case of You" and the title track "Both Sides, Now", two early hits transposed down to Mitchell's now dusky, soulful alto range. She performed frequently in coffeehouses and folk clubs and, by this time creating her own material, became well known for her unique songwriting and her innovative guitar style. Chuck Mitchell had an estimated net worth of around $1.5 million at the time of his death. In 1996, Mitchell agreed to release a greatest Hits collection, despite initial concerns that such a release would damage sales of her catalog. [42] After the reunion, Mitchell said that she lost interest in songwriting, and she later identified her daughter's birth and her inability to take care of her as the moment when her songwriting inspiration had really begun. Mitchell wrote her first song, "Day After Day", on the three-day train ride. For a year and a half, Mitchell worked on the tracks for her next album. "[39] She gave birth to a baby girl in February 1965. In mid-2007, Mitchell's official fan-run site confirmed speculation that she had signed a two-record deal with Starbucks' Hear Music label. Soon after, they began performing as a duo, singing in Detroit-area folk music venues such as Chess Mate and The Raven Gallery. [108][113] Musicians who had turned up to play included Elton John, Paul McCartney, Bonnie Raitt, Harry Styles, Chaka Khan, Marcus Mumford and Herbie Hancock. 38 on the Billboard charts. She performed the song "Goodbye Blue Sky" and was also one of the performers on the concert's final song "The Tide Is Turning" along with Waters, Cyndi Lauper, Bryan Adams, Van Morrison and Paul Carrack. In January 1976, Mitchell received a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for the album The Hissing of Summer Lawns, though the 1976 Grammy for that category went to Linda Ronstadt. I don't want to get a posse against men. According to Celebrity Net Worth, Joni Mitchell is a famous singer and songwriter with a $100 million net worth. [97] Mitchell also revisited her poetry with Morning Glory on the Vine, a collection of facsimile handwritten lyrics, poetry and artwork originally compiled in 1971 as a gift for friends and family. Mitchell continued experimenting with synthesizers, drum machines and sequencers for the recordings of her next album, 1988's Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm. I played in Fort Bragg. [136] Madonna has also cited Mitchell as the first female artist that really spoke to her as a teenager; "I was really, really into Joni Mitchell. linktr.ee/jonimitchell. [122] Mitchell asserted her desire for artistic control throughout her career, and still holds the publishing rights for her music. This allowed Mitchell to use one guitar on stage, while an off-stage tech entered the preprogrammed tuning for each song in her set. Speaking with biographer David Yaffe, music legend gets honest and raw about Dylan, James Taylor, Leonard Cohen . [citation needed]. British synthpop performer and producer Thomas Dolby was brought on board. [154], In 2018, Mitchell was honoured by the city of Saskatoon, when two plaques were erected to commemorate her musical beginnings in Saskatoon. She left western Canada for the first time in her life, heading east for Ontario. The new song cycle was released in November 1975 as The Hissing of Summer Lawns. The live album slowly moved up to No. [121], In 2003, Rolling Stone named her the 72nd-greatest guitarist of all time; she was the highest-ranked woman on the list. [155][156], In 2020, Mitchell received the Les Paul Award, becoming the first woman to do so. Shine was released by the label on September 25, 2007, debuting at number 14 on the Billboard 200 album chart, her highest chart position in the United States since the release of Hejira in 1976, over thirty years previously, and at number 36 on the United Kingdom albums chart. "L.A. is my workplace", she said in 2006, "B.C. The Saskatchewan Recording Industry Association bestowed upon Joni their Lifetime Achievement Award in 1993. The collection is the first to feature a new mix of Mitchell's 1968 debut album, overseen by Mitchell herself. As 1984 ended, Mitchell was writing new songs when she received a suggestion from Geffen that perhaps an outside producer with experience in the modern technical arenas that they wanted to explore might be a worthy addition. 23839 John R, Hazel Park. While some of Mitchell's most popular songs were written on the piano, almost every song she composed on the guitar uses an open, or non-standard, tuning; she has written songs in some 50 tunings, playing what she has called "Joni's weird chords". In 1995, Mitchell received Billboard's Century Award. [71] She also filmed portions of the rehearsals for a documentary that she was working on. Hits charted at No. Joni Mitchell Talks Exes, Addictions and Music in Candid, All-Access Biography. Based in New York City, she acquired a reputation as an East Coast songwriter and live performer. Mitchell's sound was already beginning to expand beyond the confines of acoustic folk music and toward pop and rock, with more overdubs, percussion, and backing vocals, and for the first time, many songs composed on piano, which became a hallmark of Mitchell's style in her most popular era. "[124] A Perfect Circle, another band featuring Keenan as lead vocalist, recorded a rendition of Mitchell's "The Fiddle and the Drum" on their 2004 album eMOTIVe, a collection of anti-war cover songs. 13 on the Billboard Charts, reaching gold status three weeks after release, and received airplay from album-oriented FM rock stations. Still distributed by Warner Bros. (who controlled Asylum Records), Geffen negated the remaining contractual obligations Mitchell had with Asylum and signed her to his new label. [31], Mitchell started singing with her friends at bonfires around Waskesiu Lake, northwest of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. The concert, which featured a tribute to Mitchell, was also attended by Queen Elizabeth II. As one of the most influential singer-songwriters to emerge from the 1960s folk music circuit, Mitchell became known for her starkly personal lyrics and unconventional compositions which grew to incorporate pop and jazz elements. 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