At the Chicago Theater, Patti Smith and her band tore into “Horses” from top to bottom, and 50 years on, it’s still ...
What a magnificent night of live music, centered on the 1975 debut that is regularly — and rightfully — considered to be one ...
“Just Kids” is a memoir of Smith’s early years in New York and her relationship with the artist Robert Mapplethorpe. They ...
If you were wondering what the poem meant, I have no idea,” Patti Smith offered, after reading Rimbaud’s “Genie” on Monday ...
“Jesus died for somebody’s sins but not mine,” Smith sang on Saturday over the slow piano chords of keyboardist Tony Shanahan ...
Never-before-seen pictures of Patti Smith’s first trip as a musician to Paris in 1976, including a pilgrimage to The Doors ...
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Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith and students from Music Will perform during "People Have the Power: A Celebration of Patti Smith" at New York's Carnegie Hall on March 26, 2025 (photo: Taylor Hill / ...
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 ...