Patti Smith complete

Patti Smith mated French Symbolist poetry with rock & roll, and created a musical style to match. Her innovative 1975 album, HORSES, was one of the earliest and most important influences on punk rock (not to mention on post-punk female songwriters like PJ Harvey), though ironically her biggest hit, 1978's "Because the Night," was co-written with Bruce Springsteen. Smith spent much of the '80s and '90s away from the music business, but re-entered the fray in earnest starting with 1996's lauded GO...