"From the moment Patti Smith burst onto the scene chanting "Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine," the irreverent opening line to her 1975 debut album Horses, the punk movement had found its dissident intellectual voice. This raw compilation of interviews with Smith chronicles the creative career of the legendary "godmother of punk," from her volatile rise in the New York underground in the '70s to her continuing role as mystic and matriarch within the music community"-- Provided by publisher.
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