Patti Smith’s Family Secrets

This article appears in the December 2025 print edition with the headline “Patti Smith’s Lifetime of Reinvention.” ...
The Sun Chronicle

Patti Smith reflects on her late friend Lou Reed

NEW YORK (AP) - Patti Smith remembers the first time she saw Lou Reed in person. It was 1970 and Reed and the Velvet Underground were performing at the Manhattan club Max's Kansas City. "I was so ...
American Songwriter

6 of the Most Important Rock Albums of the 1970s That Every Music Lover Should Own

The first release of Horses by Patti Smith wasn’t entirely successful back in 1975. In the years that followed, though, the album became a legacy item in Smith’s discography. It inspired generations ...
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Patti Smith, the poet who became a rock legend

Long before she was a rock ‘n’ roll legend, Patti Smith (Chicago, 78 years old) was a poet who worked at Scribner, a bookstore next to New York City’s Rockefeller Center. She lived with her partner at ...