Punk godmother Patti Smith‘s landmark 1975 debut album, Horses, is getting the golden jubilee treatment. The John Cale-produced classic that introduced the world to Smith’s signature poetry-meets-punk ...
This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli. Patti Smith is now considered one of the wise women of rock 'n' roll, an eloquent chronicler of her life in music and in a series of acclaimed memoirs. But 50 ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. — The power of rock ‘n’ roll was on full display. It made us want to sing and it made us want to scream. It made want to call old friends as well as make new ones. It made us believe, ...
From cradle to late life, the godmother of punk remembers it all — including, especially, her life with the late Fred “Sonic” Smith. By David Hajdu David Hajdu is a critic, a songwriter and a ...