We’re told Patti Lupone was irriated by a fellow audience member at a performance of “Messy White Gays” over the weekend. Getty Images Patti Lupone is famous for dressing down audience members at her ...

Born coughing, Patti Smith was a sickly kid. As she writes in her new memoir, “Bread of Angels,” “Mine was a Proustian childhood, one of intermittent quarantine and convalescence.” Her family moved ...

It’s a rare gray Saturday in Los Angeles; raindrops collect along a window overlooking a row of trees at Le Parc at Melrose. Light trickles its way into the hotel room, illuminating a brown coffee ...

Has there ever been a gutsier opening salvo in rock n’ roll? That’s how Patti Smith began her show Monday night at the Chicago Theatre, the line coming out slow and sinewy, and it’s how she started ...

The power of rock ‘n’ roll was on full display. It made us want to sing and it made us want to scream. It made us want to call old friends as well as make new ones. It made us believe, hope and dream.

“If you were wondering what the poem meant, I have no idea,” Patti Smith offered, after reading Rimbaud’s “Genie” on Monday night at the Paramount Theatre. “But, to me, it just means everything.” Just ...

With “Bread of Angels,” Patti Smith has finally given readers the long-awaited follow-up to 2010’s “Just Kids.” Unlike “M Train” (2015) and “Year of the Monkey” (2019), both of which mixed memoir with ...

In 1975, she transformed poetry into punk. Neither would ever be the same. More than 20 artists who made and admired the album share their memories. By Jon Pareles November 7th, 2025 Sex. Death.

Patti Smith’s album début album, “Horses,” came out fifty years ago, on November 10, 1975, launching her to stardom almost overnight. An anniversary reissue came out this year, to rapturous reviews.

This is FRESH AIR. Patti Smith, known as the grandmother of punk, has received several honors, including an induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and the French Legion of Honor. But for our book ...

At age 78, Patti Smith has much to celebrate, and not only because of her prolific career, but also because novelties are still present in her life. In honor of her new memoir, Bread of Angels and the ...

Patti Smith has just released a new memoir titled Bread of Angels. The autobiography includes a surprising revelation about her family history that she discovered while writing the book. The ...