Patti Smith is looking back, and coming home. Smith, the 78-year-old Rock and Roll Hall of Fame singer-songwriter, was born in Chicago and lived in Philadelphia before moving to Deptford and Pitman in ...
Poverty and insanity are terrible things—but then there is bohemian poverty and insanity, and these are infused with the romance of becoming an artist. In the first of this two-part interview, Patti ...
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 ...