It Wasn’t About Music Anymore
In 1994, Mitchell returned to Reprise and Mo Ostin. Geffen told his biographer, “If I didn’t talk to her for the rest of my life, I wouldn’t miss her for a minute.” Ouch. Don Henley said, “David Geffen used to care about music. But he’s not in the record business anymore. He’s in the David Geffen business.”
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Still, Laurel Canyon was no longer the rock sanctuary that it had been. The early Troubadour stars were now living in richer canyons like Stone and Benedict and Coldwater and Mandeville. Mitchell, for one, moved to Bel Air and Beverly Hills and bought beach homes in Malibu.