PATTI SMITH
Patti Smith Complete : Lyrics,Reflections & Notes for the Future.Described by her critics alternately as the "godmother of punk" and "rock and roll's poet laureate," Patti Smith is an American original. Her first album, Horses, was a landmark album of power, bravado, beauty, and grace. Its famous cover portrait, photographed by Robert Mapplethorpe, "was the first to claim both vision and authority," wrote Camille Paglia. "No female rocker had ever dominated an image in this aggressive, uncompromising way." Purchase

 

Early Work
1970-1979

Two Times Intro : On the Road With Patti Smith By Michael Stipe