LOS ANGELES — It’s a rare gray Saturday in Los Angeles; raindrops collect along a window overlooking a row of trees at Le Parc at Melrose. Light trickles its way into the hotel room, illuminating a ...

Patti Smith is reflecting on one of the heartbreaking songs she wrote about her husband's death. The 79-year-old musician was married to rocker Fred "Sonic" Smith when he died suddenly at age 46 in ...

"I spent a day with him and he was able to calm," Smith says of her longtime friend on the Jan. 8 episode the 'All There Is with Anderson Cooper' podcast Ilana Kaplan is a Staff Editor at PEOPLE. She ...

AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS - JUNE 03: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY)(AGENCY EXCLUSIVE ACCESS) Dua Lipa performs on stage during Radical Optimism European Tour Movistar at Ziggo Dome on June 03, 2025 in Amsterdam, ...

Check out this exclusive, singular "Frankenstein" video Q&A with Smith and the director and star of Netflix's Oscar contender. Guillermo del Toro: I was weird. I was extremely thin. I’m not joking. I ...

This week saw the launch of the final episode of our hit podcast Jane Austen’s Paper Trail (although a bonus Q&A episode is coming in January for any Austen fans experiencing withdrawal). Episode six ...

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 ...

Of all the insights revealed in Patti Smith’s new memoir, “Bread of Angels,” none is so immersive as Smith’s description of the writing room she cultivated in the 1980s, during a period removed from ...

Patti Smith's landmark album "Horses" was released Dec. 13, 1975. Its 50th anniversary brings a contradiction that feels appropriate to the record's origins. For an album that helped define an era, it ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Chiu is a freelance music writer based in New York. As it has been for at least 20 years now, the popularity of music ...

Born coughing, Patti Smith was a sickly kid. As she writes in her new memoir, “Bread of Angels,” “Mine was a Proustian childhood, one of intermittent quarantine and convalescence.” Her family moved ...

Patti Smith took the train from New York City to Boston to play the Orpheum Theatre on Monday. There were delays. She was annoyed. Midway through the latest date on her 50th anniversary tour ...