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You never got to hear Jane Asher, the actress/girlfriend who inspired many of Paul McCartney’s greatest songs, give her perspective. Even Linda Eastman, who married McCartney and became his keyboardist, never wrote songs about their relationship. ...
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I was totally miserable. Terrified that this would be it for the rest of my life. I had just got into punk through singles by The 'Pistols, Clash, Jam, Stranglers and Ramones which kept me alive, to be honest. It gave me a reason for living. Patti...
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MC5 and later played in a version of the group called DKT-MC5 with former MC5 members Wayne Kramer on guitar and Dennis Thompson on drums. The latter two are now the only surviving members of the classic MC5 lineup: singer Rob Tyner died in 1991 and...
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I saw Whitney Houston perform in person, she seemed indestructible. It was 1990 and Houston, 26, was appearing at Radio City Music Hall as part of a benefit celebrating the 15th anniversary of her label, Arista, and also raising money for AIDS research.
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Kicking off Thursday is the Park Avenue Armory’s Tune-In Music Festival — four days and nights of Glass works, including “The Poet Speaks,” featuring the composer and Patti Smith. He’ll supply the music and she’ll give us the poetry, both her own and...
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I wanted to buy the socks you were wearing on your feet... Would you have said yes? Heck, any female want to sell me their dirty socks?" "Hummus for two? The L from Union Square to the Grand stop: You were reading a copy of Patti Smith's Just Kids...
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History S.C. Gwynne Describes the actions of both whites and Comanches during a 40-year war over territory, in a story that begins with the kidnapping of a white girl who grew up to marry a Comanche chief and have a son, Quanah, who became a great warrior.NPR...
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40 years after the photos were taken and Smith had become a punk and poetry icon, Linn decided to unleash more than 100 of the coveted shots to the greater population. She made selections from the more than 200 rolls of film she had taken of Smith and...
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The 19-year old took to the talk show stage to once again give her take on the Bob Dylan classic, "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go." Other artists taking part on the CD include Adele, Ke$ha, Sting, Patti Smith, My Morning Jacket, My Chemical...
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Past recipients include Ashford & Simpson, Burt Bacharach & Hal David, Alan & Marilyn Bergman, Jackson Browne, Elvis Costello, Melissa Etheridge, Billy Joel, Annie Lennox, Sir Paul McCartney, Joni Mitchell, Smokey Robinson, Patti Smith, Steely Dan, Rod...
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Past recipients include Ashford & Simpson, Burt Bacharach & Hal David, Alan & Marilyn Bergman, Jackson Browne, Elvis Costello, Melissa Etheridge, Billy Joel, Annie Lennox, Sir Paul McCartney, Joni Mitchell, Smokey Robinson, Patti Smith, Steely Dan, Rod...
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Back in the winter of 1978, at the urging of musician Patti Smith, he turned up at photographer Frank Stefanko’s house in Haddonfield, N.J. The two roamed the town’s streets that day in search of an album-cover shot for “Darkness on the Edge of Town.” ...
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Life as a female artist in the 1970s was no barrel of laughs, wherever you hailed from. It was the era of an all-female rock band called Fanny and Gilbert O'Sullivan's 1974 hit single A Woman's Place, which, he reckoned, was in the home. Even at the...
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Stefanko is a graduate of Glassboro State College. His classmate, having been visited by Springsteen backstage at a concert in a New York City club, repeated the comment. “My friend Frankie said you’re going to be famous someday,” Patti Smith repeated.
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The exhibit comes down Feb. 24. The superstar in the black-and-white Hilberry show is clearly Judy Linn, a Detroit native who shot Patti Smith in the early 1970s, producing some of the most iconic images in the rock and roll family album. Here's Smith...
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Blake first began drawing attention in 2010, a cover of Feist's "Limit to Your Love" became one of his most recognizable hits. It... When Philip Glass looks out from the stage this evening at Carnegie Hall, he will see the same audience he's always seen.
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Herein, a do-it-yourself guide to some of the coolest hair and makeup looks fresh from the catwalks. DISHEVELED 1970S HAIR AT RAG & BONE To achieve his self-described “Patti Smith goes to India” look, Guido (just Guido, of course), the hairstylist and...
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Reed conducted the string quartet and the drummer to improvise with him at moments, which felt awkward in the beginning; the ending, however--as the string quartet jammed in tandem with Smith's guitarists and Reed himself--was pretty impressive. At the...
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Depp was wasted with a narrative that went nowhere in a movie that is really only notable for Amber Heard looking great in it. But the music was pretty top shelf, and in fact, it seems to have been so good that a second soundtrack album is on the way. ...
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By the end of the evening, Blake and Antony would join Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed, Das Racist, Stephin Merritt, Carnegie Hall’s two house bands, The Patti Smith Band and the Scorchio String Quartet, beat-boxer Rahzel, traditional Tibetan...
About Patti Smith
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Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith (born December 30, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, poet and artist who was a highly influential component of the punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses. Called the "Godmother of Punk", she integrated the beat poetry performance style with three-chord rock. Her allusions introduced American teens to... Full Article
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US singer Patty Smith performs at the Ariston Theatre in San Remo, during the 62nd Sanremo Music Festival on February 16, 2012.
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U.S. performer Patti Smith gestures on stage during the 62nd edition of the Sanremo Song Festival, in Sanremo, Italy, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012.
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NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 23: Patti Smith attends The Weinstein Company with The Cinema Society & Forevermark premiere of 'W.E.' at the Ziegfeld Theater on January 23, 2012 in New York City.
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NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 17: (L-R) Musician Patti Smith and actress Susan Sarandon attend the premiere of 'Coriolanus' at Paris Theater on January 17, 2012 in New York City.
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Singer, poet, author Patti Smith, left, poses with actress Susan Sarandon at the premiere of "Coriolanus" at the Paris Theater on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012 in New York.
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NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 15: Patti Smith attends the 2012 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Service at Riverside Church on January 15, 2012 in New York City.
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Singer Patti Smith performs during a ceremony with Occupy Wall Street members as they attend a candlelight vigil march to honor Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Riverside Church in New York, January 15, 2012.
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Singer Patti Smith performs during a ceremony and celebration of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Riverside Church Sunday, January 15, 2012 in New York.
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US rock singer and poet Patti Smith walks past three black-and-white pictures she took with her vintage Polaroid as she visits the Arthur Rimbaud museum in Charleville-Mezieres, eastern France, on November 11, 2011, where she pays tribute to French poet Arthur Rimbaud for the 120th...
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US rock singer and poet Patti Smith arrives with the book 'Rimbaud a Marseille, le dernier voyage' (Rimbaud in Marseille, The Last Travel) by Claude Camous, at Saint-Charles railway station in Marseille, southeastern France, on November 07, 2011, where she pays tribute to French poet...
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US rock singer and poet Patti Smith takes a picture with her vintage Polaroid camera at Saint-Charles railway station in Marseille, southeastern France, on November 07, 2011, where she pays tribute to French poet Arthur Rimbaud. Patti Smith organised a photo exhibition at the Wadsworth...
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U.S. singer Patti Smith performs on the red carpet during the 68th Venice Film Festival September 4, 2011.
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US singer Patti Smith performs on the red carpet prior the screening of 'Pivano Blues - Sulla strada di Nanda' during the 68th Venice International Film Festival on September 4 , 2011 at Venice Lido.
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VENICE, ITALY - SEPTEMBER 04: Musican Patti Smith performs at the 'Pivano Blues - Sulla Strada Di Nanda' premiere during the 68th Venice Film Festival at Palazzo del Cinema on September 4, 2011 in Venice, Italy.
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US singer Patti Smith is greeted by a musician (L) as she arrives at the 68th Venice Film Festival on September 4, 2011 at Venice Lido.
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VENICE, ITALY - SEPTEMBER 04: Singer Patti Smith attends the 68th Venice film festival at Lancia Cafe on September 4, 2011 in Venice, Italy.
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US singer Patti Smith (C) chats with a musician (L) as she arrives at the 68th Venice Film Festival on September 4, 2011 at Venice Lido.
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US singer Patti Smith (C) arrives at the 68th Venice Film Festival on September 4, 2011 at Venice Lido.
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U.S. musician Patti Smith receives the Polar Music Prize 2011 from Swedens King Carl XVI Gustaf (L) at Stockholm Concert Hall, August 30, 2011. Patti Smith and the U.S. Kronos String Quartet won the 2011 Polar Music Prize for their contributions to music.
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US poet and musician Patti Smith receives the Polar Music Prize 2011 from Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf in Stockholm Concert Hall, Tuesday Aug. 30, 2011. Patti Smith and the US Kronos String Quartet won the 2011 Polar Music Prize for their contributions to music.
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US singer-songwriter Patti Smith, arrives together with Swedish Author Henning Mankell, to receive the Polar Music Prize at Stockholm Concert Hall, Tuesday Aug. 30, 2011. Patti Smith and the U.S. Kronos String Quartet won the 2011 Polar Music Prize for their contributions to music.
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US singer-songwriter Patti Smith, right, shakes hands with fans on her way to receive the Polar Music Prize at Stockholm Concert Hall Tuesday Aug. 30, 2011. Patti Smith and the US Kronos String Quartet won the 2011 Polar Music Prize for their contributions to music.
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Actress Susan Sarandon (R) is hugged by singer Patti Smith at the premiere of the new Weinstein Company film "Coriolanus" in New York City January 17, 2012.
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NEW YORK, NY - JULY 14: Singer Patti Smith performs at the Castle Clinton National Monument in Battery Park on July 14, 2011 in New York City.
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U.S. artist Patti Smith performs on stage at Burgtheater in Vienna May 30, 2011.
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US singer Patty Smith performs at the Ariston Theatre in San Remo, during the 62nd Sanremo Music Festival on February 16, 2012.
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