Philip David Charles Collins LVO is an English drummer, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and actor, best known as the drummer/singer of the rock band Genesis and for his solo career. Between 1982 and 1990, Collins scored three UK and seven US number-one singles in his solo career.

民谣天才Nick Drake是一生不得志，死后才风光的典型，几乎所有人都用“孤独”来形容他的音乐，他的演唱总让人有种遥远疏离的感觉，彷佛他只是在唱给自己听，而听众是刚巧经过而已。尽管风格如此孤独，但追求完美的他总是要把歌曲加上精心编排后才发表，而不是许多民谣歌手那样，一把木吉他走天下。尽管在乐评人中一直都有很好的评价，但对于追求简单的听众来说，他的音乐过于丰富，而对于追求新奇的听众来说，他的音乐过于单纯，在70年代初，他的音乐就是这样两头不讨好，所以市场反响总是平平。Nick Drake发现自己不论如何努力总是不能得到大众认同，心情抑郁，并在26岁时英年早逝。讽刺的是，他死后，似乎忽然就变成巨星了。无数后来的民谣艺人都说，Nick Drake是影响他们最深的前辈。
这是Nick的第二张专辑，孤独而精美，爵士元素的加入，为歌曲又添上了几分迷离的色彩。我们现在来听，会和Nick一样不敢相信它竟然会不流行，然而事实就是如此，让人叹息。

有些煽情的简介:英国查尔斯王子力荐，艾尔顿强赞誉为“2004年主流乐界拥有不可思议般才华的表演者”英国销售大破百万张，蝉联流行榜52周排行，音乐史上销售速度最快的爵士专辑特别收录“BJ单身日记-男人祸水”主题曲“Everlasting Love”与3首横跨流行爵士、动感嘻哈、另类摇滚的精采翻唱时代杂志年度最佳专辑最佳新进艺人、2004 MOBO黑人音乐奖最佳爵士艺人、全英音乐奖最佳突破艺人提名英国顶尖爵士专业杂志Jazzwise：他拥有酷玩乐团(Coldplay)般的摇滚精力，还有葛瑞盖斯(Gareth Gates)可爱讨好的外型，而他的作品更是无人可比！苏格兰独立报Sunday Herald：杰米卡伦的外型足以进入少男偶像团，但他带来的却是未来爵士乐的革命！爵士评论志Movin’ Music：杰米卡伦不是罗比威廉斯也不是小亨利康尼克(Harry Connick Jr.)而是更具潜力的新星！美国时代杂志The Times：极具个人魅力，杰米卡伦的才华足以突破以往爵士的狭窄界线！

民謠女歌手 Joni Mitchell 於一九七一年發行的經典之作。在六○年代的社運、學運已成過往雲煙後，回歸藝術家身分的Joni Mitchell，以纖細、感性之筆，寫下Blue中連篇美麗的樂章：“My Old Man”描繪無須法律約束就能地老天荒的愛情；“Blue"和“California”則以略帶憂傷的口吻，描繪社運結束後，發現社會仍無改變的惆悵； "The Last Time I Saw Richard"深刻描繪了知識分子的犬儒與失落……清淡如詩的口吻，娓娓道來日常的生活情境，蘊含的卻是極為深刻的社會觀察與生命哲思，充分展現「女性創作歌手第一人」的實力。

"Both Sides, Now" is a single by Joni Mitchell. Her recording first appeared on the album Clouds, released in 1969. She re-recorded the song in a Jazz style for the album of the same name, released in 2000.
It is one of Joni Mitchell's best-known songs (with "Big Yellow Taxi," "Woodstock," and "A Case of You"). It was written in March 1967, inspired by a passage in Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow.
I was reading Saul Bellow's "Henderson the Rain King" on a plane and early in the book Henderson the Rain King is also up in a plane. He's on his way to Africa and he looks down and sees these clouds. I put down the book, looked out the window and saw clouds too, and I immediately started writing the song. I had no idea that the song would become as popular as it did.[1][2]
Judy Collins made the first commercially released recording of the song in 1968, shortly after Mitchell wrote it, which reached #8 on the U.S. pop singles charts and won a 1968 Grammy Award for Best Folk Performance. The record peaked at #3 on Billboard's Easy Listening survey, and has become one of Collins' signature songs.
Fairport Convention recorded the song as a demo in 1967. The band's recording did not become available until 2000, however, when it appeared on The Guv'nor Vol 4 by Ashley Hutchings. (A live recording featuring Judy Dyble from 1981 is included on Fairport's Moat on the Ledge album.)
Both Joni Mitchell's album Both Sides Now and a 2003 Mitchell rerecording of the song are featured in the 2003 movie Love Actually.
Rolling Stone ranked "Both Sides, Now" #170 on its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
The song was published by Scholastic as a picture book, Both Sides Now, illustrated by Alan Baker, in 1992 (ocm24629360).