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The Last Time I Saw Richard
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"'The Last Time I Saw Richard'" is a song by Joni Mitchell from her 1971 album 'Blue'. It is the last track on the album.
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're a hopeless romantic. There's only one way for you to go. Hopeless cynicism."
In October 2015 the song was included in "Joni Mitchell: 20 essential songs" by 'The Daily Telegraph' which said "One of the two greatest songs on 'Blue' and most enduring and beloved songs of Mitchells entire canon, "The Last Time I Saw Richard" is surely among the most poignant songs about romantic disillusionment ever written, in which a former lovers fate is delineated with a devastating precision. "Richard got married to a figure skater/ And he bought her a dishwasher and a coffee percolator /And he drinks at home now most nights with the TV on /And all the house lights left up bright."
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