At the end of a 60-year career, legendary singer and activist Joan Baez takes an honest look back and a deep look inward | dG1fZGhjVjFnRWF0X2M
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00:00 ♪ Fare thee well, my dear ♪
00:05 ♪ Fare ♪
00:07 ♪ Fare thee well ♪
00:12 ♪ Fare thee well ♪
00:16 - I don't think anybody at a young age who gets famous
00:22 has the slightest idea that it'll ever end.
00:24 I've always said I wouldn't wanna do a farewell tour
00:28 because people who say that always come back.
00:30 Maybe it'd be nice to celebrate 55 years of it.
00:33 - Here she is, ma'am, Miss Joan Baez.
00:36 - It was the right voice at the right time.
00:39 You just shot me in another whole stratosphere.
00:41 - What does fame mean to you?
00:43 - What fame actually is, I don't really know
00:45 'cause I don't consider myself famous.
00:47 I think it's the difference
00:48 in being well-known and being famous.
00:50 (upbeat music)
00:52 - If I could write my entire history,
00:55 whether it has anything to do with facts,
00:57 nobody will ever know
00:58 'cause we remember what we wanna remember.
01:00 - The panic attack stuff started early.
01:02 - And then the anxiety just heightened and heightened.
01:05 I walk out on the stage and they said,
01:08 oh, she looks so peaceful.
01:09 Exactly the opposite of what was going on inside.
01:13 But I was aware that there were sorrows
01:15 way greater than mine.
01:16 Nonviolent action was what I was born for.
01:19 I knew that I belonged there.
01:20 And then Dylan showing up.
01:22 ♪ Well, I'll be damned ♪
01:25 ♪ Here comes your ghost again ♪
01:28 I was just there riding the wave with him.
01:31 I think Dylan broke my heart
01:32 'cause it was so shattering.
01:34 That I admit.
01:35 I was really addicted to the activism.
01:40 There's no way I could have been intimate.
01:42 I didn't know that yet.
01:43 I'm not very good at one-on-one relationships.
01:46 I'm great with one-on-two thousand.
01:48 ♪ Ain't gonna let nobody ♪
01:53 ♪ Turn me around ♪
01:55 ♪ Turn me around ♪
01:57 There'll always be some regret no matter when I quit.
02:00 ♪ Turn me around ♪
02:02 ♪ Keep on walking ♪
02:04 Demons still come and go a little tiny bit,
02:07 but not the way they used to.
02:08 ♪ Gonna build a brand new world ♪
02:11 Somebody asked me which decade it was I like.
02:13 I said this one.
02:16 ♪ Ain't gonna let nobody ♪
02:20 ♪ Turn me around ♪
02:23 (dramatic music)
02:26 (dramatic music)
02:28 (dramatic music)
02:31 [BLANK_AUDIO]