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Patti Smith's Horses

On sale

5th August 2010

Price: £9.99

Selected:  Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780749940263

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Before The Sex Pistols, before The Clash, before The Ramones, there was Patti Smith. The poet laureate of punk, she burst onto a vacuous music scene in the mid-1970s with a raw and revolutionary sound. With the release of her debut album, Horses, rock music would simply never be the same.

Using all-new interviews with those close to Smith, Mark Paytress puts the story of Horses into its full context: from the singer’s early days to her rapid rise on New York’s performance art scene and the key role she played in the emerging art-punk movement at CBGBs.

PATTI SMITH’S HORSES tells the unforgettable story of a landmark album, the new rock aesthetic that it brought about, and how Patti Smith became the most influential female rock ‘n’ roller of all time.

Reviews

WORD
A rhetorical thoroughbred that positively charges through its 250 pages
RECORD COLLECTOR
Rock criticism at its most engrossing and ambitious
METRO LONDON
A vibrant account of Patti Smith's 1975 debut... Paytress writes with dancing, vigorous rhythm