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PATTI SMITH Break It Up: Patti Smiths Horses And The Remaking Of
Rock 'N' Roll (2006 edition 260-page hardback book - Before The Sex
Pistols, before The Clash, before The Ramones, there was Patti Smith.
The poet laureate of punk, she burst onto avacuous music scene in
the mid-1970s with a raw and revolutionary sound - steeped as much
in French symbolist poetry as it was in 60s garage rock - and an
indelible, gender-bending stage persona. With the release of her debut
album, "Horses",rock music would simply never be the same. The list
of people involved in Smith's debut is impressive - guitarist/rock critic
Lenny Kaye, producer John Cale, Arista president Clive Davis and
artist Robert Mapplethorpe, among others - but at the centre is Smith
herself: brazenly intellectual, uncompromising in her artistry, she
quickly redefined the boundaries of what was acceptable in popular
music. Using all-new interviews with those close to Smith, Mark
Paytress puts the "Horses" story in its full context: from her early
days in New Jersey to her rapid rise on New York's performance art
scene and the key role she played in the emerging art-punk
movement at club CBGBs.He also demonstrates the influence Smith
and her music continue to exert today in the work of luminaries, such
as Morrissey, REM's Michael Stipe, and PJ Harvey. Complete with 8
pages of black & white photos and a selected discography)
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