Patti Smith Complete: Lyrics, Reflections & Notes for the Future - Hardcover

Smith, Patti

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385490798 ISBN 13: 9780385490795

Publisher: Doubleday, 1998

Synopsis

A compendium of all of the pioneering, influential rock singer's lyrics includes never-before-published photographs by the late Robert Mapplethorpe, Annie Liebovitz, and others, as well as original artwork and text by the author.

About this title

About the Author:

Patti Smith's latest albumn, Peace and Noise, was nominated for a 1998 Grammy Award. Her discography includes such groundbreaking albumns as Horses and Easter, and Newsweek hailed her 1996 albumn, Gone Again, as "the most powerful rock albumn of the year." She is the author of three books of poetry, including the most recent, The Coral Sea.

From the Inside Flap:

her critics alternately as the "godmother of punk" and "rock and roll's poet laureate," Patti Smith is an American original. Her first album, Horses, was a landmark album of power, bravado, beauty, and grace. Its famous cover portrait, photographed by Robert Mapplethorpe, "was the first to claim both vision and authority," wrote Camille Paglia. "No female rocker had ever dominated an image in this aggressive, uncompromising way."

Seven albums later, and a life punctuated by a long hiatus during which Smith raised her two children and suffered the tragic losses of her husband, Fred Sonic Smith, her dear friend, Robert Mapplethorpe, and her beloved brother, Smith is ready to mark her first fifty years on the planet with a book her fans have long awaited: the complete lyrics. With never-before-seen photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe, Annie Liebovitz, Kate Simon, and others, plus original artwork and text by Smith, Patti Smith Complete is

About this edition

• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0385490798
• ISBN 13: 9780385490795
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 246