Editing Joan Baez (section)

==Relationships==
===Bob Dylan===
[[File:Joan Baez Bob Dylan.jpg|thumb | alt=Sitting very close, Baez singing, Dylan with guitar and harmonica | Baez with [[Bob Dylan]] at the civil rights [[March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom|March on Washington]], 1963]]
Baez first met Dylan in April 1961 at [[Gerde's Folk City]] in New York City's [[Greenwich Village]]. Baez had already released her debut album and her popularity as the emerging "Queen of Folk" was on the rise. Baez was initially unimpressed with the "urban [[hillbilly]]", but she liked one of Dylan's first compositions, "[[Song to Woody]]" and remarked that she would like to record it. By 1963, Baez had released three albums, two of which had been certified gold, and she invited Dylan on stage to perform alongside her at the Newport Folk Festival. The two performed the Dylan composition "[[With God on Our Side (song)|With God on Our Side]]", a collaboration that set the stage for many more duets in the months and years to come. Typically, while on tour, Baez would invite Dylan to sing on stage partly by himself and partly with her, much to the chagrin of her fans.<ref name="American Masters" />

Before meeting Dylan, Baez's topical songs were few: "[[Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream]]", "We Shall Overcome", and an assortment of [[spirituals]]. Baez would later say that Dylan's songs seemed to update the topics of protest and justice. By the time of Dylan's 1965 tour of the UK, their relationship had slowly begun to deteriorate. The couple are captured in [[D. A. Pennebaker]]'s documentary film ''[[Dont Look Back]]''<!-- {{sic}} --> (1967). Baez later described it as an abrupt halt that broke her heart. In the 2023 documentary ''[[Joan Baez: I Am a Noise|I Am a Noise]]'' Baez referred to the relationship as "totally demoralizing" which she later forgave him for but said that they are no longer in touch with each other.<ref name="people2023"> ''How Joan Baez found peace'' by Ilana Kaplan  ''People'' magazine  October 16, 2023, p. 61 </ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://eu.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2023/10/06/joan-baez-interview-i-am-a-noise-documentary-bob-dylan-family-secrets-musical-legacy/71075368007/ |title='Dylan broke my heart:' Joan Baez on how she finally shed 'resentment' of 1965 breakup |author=Marco della Cava |work=USA TODAY |date=October 6, 2023 |access-date=October 11, 2023}}</ref>

Baez toured with Dylan as a performer on his [[Rolling Thunder Revue]] in 1975–76. She sang four songs with Dylan on the live album of the tour, ''[[The Bootleg Series Vol. 5: Bob Dylan Live 1975, The Rolling Thunder Revue]]'', released in 2002. Baez appeared with Dylan in the one-hour TV special ''Hard Rain'', filmed at [[Fort Collins]], [[Colorado]], in May 1976. Baez also starred as 'The Woman in White' in the film ''[[Renaldo and Clara]]'' (1978), directed by Bob Dylan and filmed during the Rolling Thunder Revue. They performed together at the Peace Sunday anti-nuke concert in 1982.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/flashback-bob-dylan-and-joan-baez-cover-jimmy-buffet-in-1982-229823/|title=Flashback: Bob Dylan, Joan Baez Cover Jimmy Buffet[sic] in 1982|first1=Andy|last1=Greene|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|date=July 5, 2016|access-date=August 3, 2020|archive-date=July 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200727014838/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/flashback-bob-dylan-and-joan-baez-cover-jimmy-buffet-in-1982-229823/|url-status=live}}</ref> Dylan and Baez toured together again in 1984 along with [[Carlos Santana]]. Baez discussed her relationship with Dylan in [[Martin Scorsese]]'s documentary film ''[[No Direction Home]]'' (2005), and in the PBS ''[[American Masters]]'' biography of Baez, ''How Sweet the Sound'' (2009).

Baez wrote and composed at least three songs that were specifically about Dylan. In "To Bobby", written in 1972, she urged Dylan to return to political activism, while in "[[Diamonds & Rust (song)|Diamonds & Rust]]", the title track from [[Diamonds & Rust|her 1975 album]], she revisited her feelings for him in warm, yet direct terms.<ref name="Gray">{{cite book |last=Gray |first=Michael |author-link=Michael Gray (author) |title=The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia |publisher=The Continuum International Publishing Group |location=London |year=2006 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/bobdylanencyclop00gray/page/30 30–31] |isbn=978-0-8264-6933-5 |url=https://archive.org/details/bobdylanencyclop00gray/page/30}}</ref> "[[Winds of the Old Days (song)|Winds of the Old Days]]", also on the ''Diamonds & Rust'' album, is a bittersweet reminiscence about her time with "Bobby". The references to Baez in Dylan's songs are far less clear. Baez herself has suggested that she was the subject of both "[[Visions of Johanna]]" and "[[Mama, You Been on My Mind]]", although the latter was more likely about his relationship with [[Suze Rotolo]].<ref>Gray p 30</ref><ref name="Heylin">{{cite book |last=Heylin |first=Clinton |title=Behind the Shades Revisited |publisher=HarperEntertainment |location=London |year=2003 |pages=158–159 |isbn=978-0-06-052569-9}}</ref> Dylan's "[[To Ramona]]" is potentially also about Baez. In the liner notes of his 1985 compilation album ''[[Biograph (album)|Biograph]]'', Dylan stated that the song was "pretty literal. That was just somebody I knew";<ref>{{Cite book |last=Trager |first=Oliver |title=Keys to the rain: the definitive Bob Dylan encyclopedia |date=2004 |publisher=Billboard Books |isbn=978-0-8230-7974-2 |location=New York}}</ref> and in her 1987 biography ''And A Voice To Sing With,'' Baez wrote about how Dylan would call her "Ramona". Baez implied when speaking about the connection to "Diamonds and Rust" that "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts" is, at least in part, a metaphor for Dylan's view of his relationship with her. As for "[[Like A Rolling Stone]]", "Visions of Johanna", "[[She Belongs to Me]]", and other songs alleged to have been written about Baez, neither Dylan nor biographers such as [[Clinton Heylin]] and [[Michael Gray (author)|Michael Gray]] have had anything definitive to say either way regarding the subject of these songs.

Baez's relationship with Dylan was also referenced in the 2024 film ''[[A Complete Unknown]]''.{{CN|date=April 2025}}

===David Harris===
In October 1967, Baez, her mother, and nearly 70 other women were arrested at the Oakland, California, Armed Forces Induction Center for blocking its doorways to prevent entrance by young inductees, and in support of young men who refused [[conscription|military induction]]. They were incarcerated in the [[Santa Rita Jail]], and it was here that Baez met [[David Harris (protestor)|David Harris]], who was kept on the men's side but who still managed to visit with Baez regularly. The two formed a close bond upon their release and Baez moved into his draft-resistance [[Commune (intentional community)|commune]] in the hills above [[Stanford, California]]. The pair had known each other for three months when they decided to marry. After confirming the news to Associated Press, media outlets began dedicating ample press to the impending nuptials (at one point, ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine referred to the event as the "Wedding of the Century").<ref>{{Cite news |author=Brown, Mick |date=September 15, 2009 |title=Joan Baez: interview |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/worldfolkandjazz/6173753/Joan-Baez-interview.html |access-date=February 26, 2025 |work=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]] |language=en |archive-date=December 18, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171218013410/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/worldfolkandjazz/6173753/Joan-Baez-interview.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

After finding a [[pacifist]] preacher and a church outfitted with peace signs and writing a blend of [[Episcopal Church in the United States of America|Episcopalian]] and [[Quaker wedding]] vows, Baez and Harris married in New York City on March 26, 1968. Her friend [[Judy Collins]] sang at the ceremony. After the wedding, Baez and Harris moved into a home in [[Los Altos Hills, California]] on {{convert|10|acre|hectare}} of land called Struggle Mountain, part of a commune, where they tended gardens.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Merrill |first=Allison McClain |date=June 7, 2023 |title=Inside one of the Bay Area's last 1960s-style communes |url=https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/inside-bay-area-commune-struggle-mountain-18121995.php |access-date=June 11, 2023 |website=San Francisco Chronicle |language=en-US |archive-date=June 11, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230611165359/https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/inside-bay-area-commune-struggle-mountain-18121995.php |url-status=live }}</ref>

A short time later, Harris refused induction into the armed forces and was indicted. On July 16, 1969, Harris was taken by federal marshals to prison.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,901123,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081214140634/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,901123,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 14, 2008 |title=People: July 25, 1969 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=July 25, 1969 |access-date=June 18, 2010}}</ref><!-- leaving Baez alone – not alone at all, on that commune, according to the article. --> Baez was visibly pregnant in public in the months that followed, especially at the [[Woodstock]] Festival, where she performed a handful of songs in the early morning. The documentary film ''Carry It On'' was produced during this period and was released in 1970.<ref>[http://www.newfilmco.com/CIOpage.htm "Carry It On"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090428100103/http://www.newfilmco.com/CIOpage.htm |date=April 28, 2009 }}. Directed by Chris Knight. The New Film Co., 1970.  Official website.</ref> The film's behind-the-scenes looks at Harris's views and arrest and Baez on her subsequent performance tour was positively reviewed in ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine and ''[[The New York Times]]''.<ref>{{cite news |author=J. C. |title=Cinema: Something More Than Love |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=August 24, 1970 |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,902681,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100309115201/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,902681,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 9, 2010 |access-date=June 18, 2010}}</ref><ref>Wilson, John S. (August 27, 1970). [https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9C06E1DD1E3EE034BC4F51DFBE66838B669EDE "Joan Baez and Her Challenge:'Carry It On' Follows Singer and Husband"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104180923/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9C06E1DD1E3EE034BC4F51DFBE66838B669EDE |date=November 4, 2013 }}. ''[[The New York Times]]''. Retrieved June 19, 2010.</ref>

Among the songs Baez wrote about this period of her life are "A Song for David", "Myths", "Prison Trilogy (Billy Rose)" and "Fifteen Months" (the amount of time Harris was imprisoned). Their son Gabriel was born on December 2, 1969. Harris was released from Texas prison after 15 months, but they separated three months after his release and the couple divorced amicably in 1973.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/joan-baez-how-sweet-the-sound/1185/ |title=How Sweet The Sound: Joan Baez |website=[[PBS]] |date=September 24, 2009 |access-date=February 22, 2020 |archive-date=September 12, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150912132510/http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/joan-baez/how-sweet-the-sound/1185/ |url-status=live }}</ref> They shared custody of Gabriel, who lived primarily with Baez.<ref>{{cite news |title=Joan Baez Sues for a Divorce |author=James F. Clarity |work=The New York Times |date=March 27, 1973 |page=43 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/03/27/archives/joan-baez-sues-for-a-divorce-notes-on-people.html?sq=Joan%2520Baez%2520Sues%2520for%2520a%2520Divorce&scp=1&st=cse |access-date=February 3, 2008 |archive-date=July 22, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180722221338/https://www.nytimes.com/1973/03/27/archives/joan-baez-sues-for-a-divorce-notes-on-people.html?sq=Joan%2520Baez%2520Sues%2520for%2520a%2520Divorce&scp=1&st=cse |url-status=live }}</ref> Explaining the split, Baez wrote in her autobiography: "I am made to live alone."<ref name="AVoice">{{cite book |last=Baez |first=Joan |year=1987 |title=And a Voice to Sing With: A Memoir |location= New York |publisher=Summit Books |page=160 |isbn=978-0-671-40062-0}}</ref> Baez and Harris remained on friendly terms throughout the years; they reunited on-camera for the 2009 ''American Masters'' documentary for the USA's PBS. Their son Gabriel is a drummer and occasionally tours with his mother. He has a daughter Jasmine who also sang with Joan Baez at Kidztock in 2010.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://marie-everydaymiracle.blogspot.de/2010/06/joan-baez-sings-with-her-granddaughter.html |title=Every Day Is a Miracle: Joan Baez sings with her granddaughter |publisher=Marie-everydaymiracle.blogspot.de |date=June 21, 2010 |access-date=August 25, 2015 |archive-date=September 4, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904052142/http://marie-everydaymiracle.blogspot.de/2010/06/joan-baez-sings-with-her-granddaughter.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.marinij.com/general-news/20100526/baez-headlines-school-fundraiser-one-of-many-festivals-fairs-this-summer |title=Baez headlines school fundraiser – one of many festivals, fairs this summer |publisher=Marinij.com |date=May 26, 2010 |access-date=August 25, 2015 |archive-date=September 4, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904052142/http://www.marinij.com/general-news/20100526/baez-headlines-school-fundraiser-one-of-many-festivals-fairs-this-summer |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Steve Jobs===
Baez dated [[Apple Inc.|Apple Computer]] cofounder [[Steve Jobs]] during the early 1980s.<ref>Manock, Jerry (June 1982). [http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Invasion_of_Texaco_Towers.txt "Invasion of Texaco Towers"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304110224/http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Invasion_of_Texaco_Towers.txt |date=March 4, 2016 }}. Folklore.org. "One afternoon, when the project was in its advanced stages, Steve burst through the door, unannounced, in an exuberant mood. He had two guests ... Joan Baez and her sister, Mimi Farina."</ref> A number of sources have stated that Jobs—then in his mid-twenties—had considered asking Baez to marry him, except that her age at the time (early 40s) made the possibility of their having children unlikely.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Young |first1=Jeffrey S. |last2=Simon |first2=William L. |year=2005 |title=
iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business |publisher=Wiley |isbn=978-0-471-72083-6 |url=https://archive.org/details/iconstevejobsgre00jeff}}{{page needed|date=May 2021}}</ref> Baez mentioned Jobs in the acknowledgments in her 1987 memoir ''And a Voice to Sing With'' and performed at the memorial for him in 2011. After Jobs's death, Baez spoke fondly about him, stating that even after the relationship had ended, the two remained friends, with Jobs having visited Baez a few months before he died. Baez remarked that "Steve had a very sweet side, even if he was as... erratic as he was famous for being. But he gets genius license for that, because he was somebody who changed the world."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.contactmusic.com/news/joan-baez-pays-tribute-to-generous-steve-jobs_1281311|title=Joan Baez Pays Tribute To Generous Steve Jobs|website=Contactmusic.com|date=January 6, 2012|access-date=December 11, 2012|archive-date=September 14, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130914040534/http://www.contactmusic.com/news/joan-baez-pays-tribute-to-generous-steve-jobs_1281311|url-status=live}}</ref>