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In the midst of her European tour, Patti Smith has added US dates in support of her recent release of Twelve. It kicks off in the states on July 31 in Philly. You can listen to "Gimme Shelter" on her music space page. MORE
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Patti Smith described her music on the 1975 release of Horses, her celebrated debut album; and so she has continued to blend the spoken and sung arts in incantatory fashion with her latest work, Gone Again. Impossible to categorize, moving easily between the literary and musical worlds, always unpredictable and impassioned, she is an idiosyncratically unique performer who has always remained true to her artistic vision.
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Whatever the case, Smith's poems are better than her peers' largely because she draws a firm line between her music and her poetry. Refreshingly, she doesn't assume that she can write poems just because she can write songs—even though the opposite assumption led to her success as a musician. What's more, unlike Christopher Ricks—the T.S. Eliot scholar who recently published an explication de texte of Dylan's lyrics—she doesn't think it makes sense to call song lyrics "poetry." She believes that rock is for the people, and that poetry is for God, or the muse. She is happy to have her poems find a home in the world, but their urgency is primarily a private one.
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On Sunday, October 15, 2006 Patti Smith performed at CBGB, with 3½-hour tour de force to close out Manhattan's legendary live-music venue. She took the stage at 9:30 PM (EDT) and closed for the night (and forever for the venue) at a few minutes after 1:00, after performing a medley of "Horses" and "Gloria" , and finally her song "Elegie", while reading a list of punk rock musicians and advocates who had died in the previous years.[6]
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Made by Steven Sebring, the mostly black-and-white "Patti Smith: Dream of Life" gets unusually close to its subject. Experimental camera work and editing makes for a fittingly unconventional portrait of one of the pioneers of punk music.
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Patricia Lee Smith is an American musician, singer, and poet. Smith came to prominence during the punk movement with her 1975 debut album Horses. Some of her most well-known songs include "Because The Night" (1978), "Up There Down There," and "People Have The Power." Called "punk rock's poet laureate", she brought a feminist and intellectual take to punk music and became one of rock and roll's most influential musicians.
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