Patti Smith's Horses And the Remaking of Rock 'N' Roll

by Paytress, Mark

• ISBN13: 9780749940263
• ISBN10: 0749940263
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-01-12
• Publisher: Little, Brown UK

Summary

Before The Sex Pistols, before The Clash, before The Ramones, there was Patti Smith. The poet laureate of punk, she burst onto a vacuous music scene in the mid-1970s with a raw and revolutionary sound. With the release of her debut album, Horses, rock music would simply never be the same.Using all-new interviews with those close to Smith, Mark Paytress puts the story of Horses into its full context: from the singer's early days to her rapid rise on New York's performance art scene and the key role she played in the emerging art-punk movement at CBGBs. PATTI SMITH'S HORSES tells the unforgettable story of a landmark album, the new rock aesthetic that it brought about, and how Patti Smith became the most influential female rock 'n' roller of all time.

Author Biography

Mark Paytress is a renowned music journalist for such publications as the Guardian, MOJO, and Q. His other books include BowieStyle, I Was There: Gigs that Changed the World, Siouxsie and the Banshees: The Authorised Biography, and Vicious: The Art of Dying Young.