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Patti Smith: Fame March
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Patti Smith will exhibit a collection of her drawings and photography, titled 'Land 250,' at Paris' Foundation Cartier, along with audio of Smith talking about each piece. The exhibition runs from March through June 22.
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Smith's debut album, Horses, produced by John Cale of Velvet Underground fame, was issued in late 1975. The album included a cover of the '60s garage classic "Gloria," and cracked the Top 50 on the U.S. charts. The follow-up, Radio Ethiopia (1976), was a more polished effort, though it failed to make the top hundred on the album charts. In January 1977, while performing in Florida, Smith fell from the stage and broke two vertebrae in her neck. She remained in a neck brace for several weeks, during which time she wrote her fifth poetry collection, Babel, published later that year.
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On October 15, 2006, Smith performed the final show at famed New York venue -- and old stomping ground -- CBGB. Her performance lasted more than three hours, bringing an end to the haunt's 33-year run just after 1 am.
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While touring in support of the record, Smith accidentally danced off a high stage in Tampa, Florida, falling 15 feet into a concrete orchestra pit and breaking several neck vertebrae. The injury required a period of rest and an intensive round of physical therapy, during which time she was able to reassess, re-energize and reorganize her life, a luxury that had been denied her in her swift rise to fame.
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