Книга: Smith Patti «Just Kids»

Just Kids

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A prelude to fame, Just Kids recounts the friendship of two young artists - Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe - whose passion fueled their lifelong pursuit of art. In 1967, a chance meeting between two young people led to a romance and a lifelong friendship that would carry each to international success never dreamed of. The backdrop is Brooklyn, Chelsea Hotel, Max's Kansas City, Scribner's Bookstore, Coney Island, Warhol's Factory and the whole city resplendent. Among their friends, literary lights, musicians and artists such as Harry Smith, Bobby Neuwirth, Allen Ginsberg, Sandy Daley, Sam Shepherd, William Burroughs, etc. It was a heightened time politically and culturally; the art and music worlds exploding and colliding. In the midst of all this two kids made a pact to always care for one another. Scrappy, romantic, committed to making art, they prodded and provided each other with faith and confidence during the hungry years - the days of cous-cous and lettuce soup. Just Kids begins as a love story and ends as an elegy. Beautifully written, this is a profound portrait of two young artists, often hungry, sated only by art and experience. And an unforgettable portrait of New York, her rich and poor, hustlers and hellions, those who made it and those whose memory lingers near.

Издательство: "Bloomsbury Publishing" (2011)

ISBN: 978-0-7475-6876-6

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Smith, Patti

▪ American poet, songwriter, and singer
Introduction
in full  Patti Lee Smith  
born December 30, 1946, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

      American poet, rock songwriter, and singer. Growing up in New Jersey, Smith won an art scholarship to Glassboro State Teachers College. In 1967 she moved to New York City, where she became active in the downtown Manhattan arts scene, writing poetry and living with the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe (Mapplethorpe, Robert). Her performance-driven poetry readings soon took on a musical component, and from 1971 she worked regularly with the guitarist and critic Lenny Kaye. By 1973 they had formed a band and began performing widely in the . Smith's mesmeric charisma, chantlike but hoarsely compelling musical declamation, visionary texts, and simple but ingenious rock music won her an intense cult following.

      Signed to a contract with Arista Records, she released her first album, Horses, in 1975; it was produced by John Cale, the Welsh avant-gardist and cofounder (with Lou Reed) of the Velvet Underground (Velvet Underground, the). Her purest, truest album, it replicated her live shows better than any subsequent LP. Later albums of the 1970s moved in a more commercial direction, with a pounding big beat that bludgeoned away some of her subtlety; at the same time, her concerts often became sloppy and undisciplined. After Radio Ethiopia (1976) she released her most commercially successful album, Easter, in 1978. It included a hit single, “Because the Night,” written with Bruce Springsteen (Springsteen, Bruce).

      Following the album Wave in 1979, Smith disbanded her group and retired to Detroit, Michigan, where she raised a family with Fred (Sonic) Smith, founder of the band MC5 (MC5, the). Although she recorded an album with her husband in 1988 (Dream of Life) and began working on new songs with him a few years later, it was only after his sudden death from a heart attack in 1994 that her comeback began in earnest. Gone Again, her first solo album in 17 years, appeared in 1996 and was followed by Peace and Noise (1997) and Gung Ho (2000); she continued releasing new work in the 21st century. If anything, this late work showed her stronger than ever, full of the old fire but purged of her more extreme excesses.

      Although she never topped the charts, Smith precipitated punk rock in New York, London, Los Angeles, and beyond. A pioneer in the fusion of the bohemian sensibility with rock, she was able to translate the incantatory power of Beat (Beat movement) writers such as Allen Ginsberg (Ginsberg, Allen) and William S. Burroughs (Burroughs, William S.) into the rock mainstream. In 2007 Smith was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

John Rockwell

Representative Works

Poetry
● Babel (1978)
● Early Work, 1970–1979 (1994)
● The Coral Sea (1996)

Discography
● Horses (1975)
● Radio Ethiopia (1976)
● Easter (1978)
● Wave (1979)
● Dream of Life (1988)
● Gone Again (1996)
● Peace and Noise (1997)

Additional Reading
Patti Smith, Patti Smith (1977), is a collection of poems and sheet music; and Patti Smith Complete: Lyrics, Reflections & Notes for the Future (1998) combines all her lyrics to date with her own annotations and photographs by Annie Leibovitz and Robert Mapplethorpe, among others. Dusty Roach, Patti Smith: Rock & Roll Madonna (1979), is a popular photo book. Profiles of her may be found in Lucy O'Brien, She Bop: The Definitive History of Women in Rock, Pop, and Soul (1995), pp. 111–117; and Deborah Frost, “Patti Smith,” in Barbara O'Dair (ed.), Trouble Girls: The Rolling Stone Book of Women in Rock (1997), pp. 269–275.

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Источник: Smith, Patti

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