Patti Smith is a very interesting character. She isn’t known first and foremost as an author but rather a musician. She is a singer, songwriter, poet and visual artist. Her band the Patti Smith Group debuted their first album Horses in 1975, this album was a major influence on the punk rock scene in New York City. This album was ranked number 44 in Rolling Stone magazine’s 2003 issue of 500 greatest albums of all time. Patti Smith is also known as the Godmother of Punk as she fuses rock and poetry. She has also co-written a song with Bruce Springsteen, “Because the Night”.
Listen to it here:
— Chloe Chai
Thanks, Chloe. Perfect.
And here it’s again: Because the Night – in a recording where the words are a bit more easily followed: http://youtu.be/uoGdx3I3dPE
In Just Kids one thing we’ll be reading about is how she was finding her way in New York, about her first steps as a poet (& that’s what primarily she still is).