Syd Barrett in Formentera
The year is 1970. A bare-footed Joni Mitchell is ‘looking for the key to set her free’. Fleeing her lover, she packs up her guitar case and tip-toes the beaten path down through the French grape-vines, battling across the border to Spain and onwards to Barcelona before finally carving a path across the sea and coming home to Atlantis. Dipping her toes in the azure-water, she breathes in the Ibicenco air and breathes out her soul-defining record ‘Blue’. Her lover, Graham Nash, will hear her farewell letter when the album is released a year later in 1971. Postcards from the edge will never be the same again…
I recently had the pleasure of compiling a brief history of Ibiza’s rock ‘n’ roll myth-making for Ibiza Now, which has now been uploaded onto their blog pages.
To read up on the shape-shifting antics of Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd and Bob Marley on the island, click on the link below:
