Patti Smith
By user • Aug 1st, 2007 • Category: Band BiosNew York punk legends Joey and Dee Dee Ramone, Johnny Thunders and Stiv Bators all didn’t make it to age 60. So the fact that CBGB first-waver Patti Smith will take the Lollapalooza stage just south of her 61th birthday is a feat unprecedented by many of her esteemed East Village peers. In a homecoming of sorts — she was born in Chicago before moving out East as a young child — Smith’s performance at this year’s fest will be the commercial cap to a career that reached its critical pique with her induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in March. And in support of her 2007 release Twelve, the aging poet has done just about everything (and according to rumours everyone) worth doing over the course of her 3-decade career. Which is good, because if history can tell us anything, it’s that 1970s scenesters aren’t long for this world.
Chicago Innerview Magazine, August 2007
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