The Patti Smith Quartet are playing for one-night only at New Theatre Oxford tomorrow night (September 17).
Patti Smith’s influential first album, Horses, which was released 50 years ago, was produced by John Cale of the Velvet Underground.
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It came out at the start of punk in New York and Patti Smith has been labelled by critics and fans as the “godmother of punk”.
Her famed black-and-white portrait on the cover of the album was taken by her lover Robert Mapplethorpe and showed that she couldn’t be defined by gender.
In 2020 Smith, now 78, published the memoir Just Kids, which focused on her relationship with Mapplethorpe.
The critically acclaimed work won the National Book Award for nonfiction.