Free World Rock on Instagram: "Joni Mitchell – “Both Sides, Now” (Live, 1970) Recorded live for the BBC in London on 3 September, 1970. Joni Mitchell was inspired to write “Both Sides, Now” while reading Saul Bellow’s novel ‘Henderson the Rain King’ during a flight in 1966. Mitchell has explained that in the book, the main character Henderson is also on a plane, and looks out the window and down to see that he is above the clouds. While reading this, Mitchell also looked out the window of the pl