Patti Smith

UNSPECIFIED - NOVEMBER 01:  Photo of Patti Smith  (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

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Punk rock's poet laureate, Patti Smith ranks among the most influential female rock & rollers of all time. Ambitious, unconventional, and challenging, Smith's music was hailed as the most exciting fusion of rock and poetry since Bob Dylan's heyday. If that hybrid remained distinctly uncommercial for much of her career, it wasn't a statement against accessibility so much as the simpl... Read More