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

Patti Smith, the celebrated rock poet who won a National Book Award for ‘Just Kids,’ revisits her hard-scrabble childhood, ...

The singer-songwriter wisely builds her memoir around her creative 1970s in New York — but other periods get weighed down in ...

Her poetic and immersive fourth memoir 'Bread of Angels' is both a prequel and a sequel to the bestselling 'Just Kids' ...

In just under a week Patti Smith's seminal debut album 'Horses" celebrates it's 50th anniversary Recorded at Electric Lady Studio's and released on November 10th, 1975, it was met by near universal ...

Patti Smith’s Just Kids was voted a best book of the 21st century. Her new memoir covers her whole life, charting deep love, ...

From today, Wellington City Council will start to remove the temporary fencing around the waterfront. The fencing was put up ...

Break It Up’ is a brilliant, classic rock ‘n’ roll song, taking Jim Morrison’s tragedy and reimagining it through the lens of ...

These rock songs from 1978 did well when they were released, but I can help but think they should have hit No. 1 on at least one chart.

For much of the world, he had us at “Jerry Maguire,” or his “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” script, or “…Say Anything.” But ...

It’s been 50 years since Patti Smith released her surrealistic and confrontational ... to Columbia University’s Miller Theater for a night of original music and throwbacks. The 500-acre Storm King Art ...

Jeff Buckley saw one iconic performance on television, and it changed everything as the young boy realised then and there what he wanted to do when he grew up.