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Patricia Lee “Patti” Smith (born December 30, 1946 in Chicago) is an American singer–songwriter, poet and visual artist who was a highly influential component of the New York punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses. Called the “Godmother of Punk”, she integrated the beat poetry performance style with three-chord rock. Smith’s most widely known song is Because The Night, which was co-written with Bruce Springsteen and reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1978. In 2007, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Smith was born in Chicago. Her mother, Beverly, was a jazz singer, and father, Grant, worked at the Honeywell plant. She spent her entire childhood in Deptford, New Jersey. Raised the daughter of a Jehovah’s Witness mother, she claims she had a strong religious education and a very good Bible education, but left organized religion as a teenager because she felt it was too confining and much later wrote the opening line of her cover version of Them’s “Gloria” in response to this experience. Smith graduated from Deptford Township High School in 1964. The family was not wealthy and Smith went to work in a factory.
In 1967 she left Glassboro State Teachers College (now Rowan Univ...
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Top 10 Patti Smith Songs
Because the Night
Gloria
Free Money
Redondo Beach
Kimberly
Birdland
Break It Up
Elegie
Dancing Barefoot
Smells Like Teen Spirit
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Top 10 Patti Smith Albums
Horses
Easter
Twelve
Wave
Gone Again
The Collective Works
Land (1975-2002) (disc 1)
Dream of Life
Peace and Noise
Gung Ho
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