Pochette de Horses, Robert Mapplethorpe. Patti Smith: Horses. Some patti history from the time of horses [excerpt from Patricia Morrisroe's Robert Mapplethorpe] In May 1975 Patti Smith played the Other End, and her idol Bob Dylan paid a symbolic and widely photographed visit to hear her -- the music-world equivalent of being blessed by the pope.
Whether Smith would ever become as famous as Dylan, or prematurely self-destruct like Jim Morrison, was still a big question mark, but her transition from cultdom to stardom was already being closely tracked by the press. With a new drummer named Jay Dee Daugherty, Smith and her four-piece band spent much of the late summer recording Horses, which was produced by musician John Cale, one of the founders of the Velvet Underground. In addition to the surreal imagery of "Land," about the leather-jacketed Johnny -- Greil Marcus in The Village Voice compared the song's "terminal violence" to Buñuel's film Un Chien Andalou -- Smith's other lyrics touched upon lesbianism, suicide, UFOs, and Wilhelm Reich. [Cf. PattiSmith: CamillePaglia essay. Defying the rules of femininity [from "Caption: What's In a Picture," by Camille Paglia, Civilization, Dec. '96-Jan. '97] In 1975, Arista Records released Horses, the first rock album by New York bohemian poet Patti Smith.
The stark cover photo, taken by someone named Robert Mapplethorpe, was devastatingly original. It was the most electrifiying image I had ever seen of a woman of my generation. Now, two decades later, I think that it ranks in art history among a half-dozen supreme images of modern woman since the French Revolution. I was then teaching at my first job in Vermont and turning my Yale doctoral dissertation, Sexual Personae, into a book. From its rebirth in the late 1960s, the organized women's movement had been overwhelmingly hostile to rock music, which it called sexist.
Unlike many feminists, the bisexual Smith did not base her rebellion on a wholesale rejection of men. The Mapplethorpe photo synthesizes my passions and world-view. Copyright © Camille Paglia 1996. Patti Smith et Robert Mapplethorpe, Just Kids... - Livres-BD. Sur la photo choisie pour la couverture du livre, ils posent, le regard défiant et supérieur, devant les attractions de Coney Island: lui, sous un chapeau, futur photographe consacré au Whitney Museum, elle, les cheveux ceints d'un bandeau, bientôt élevée au rang de "prêtresse punk".
Patti Smith et Robert Mapplethorpe: un de ces couples mythiques dont les gloires individuelles sont indémêlables du parcours commun. "Avant que Robert ne décède, je lui ai promis que j'écrirais un jour notre histoire. " C'est sur cette justification un peu bateau que Patti Smith engage un portrait vraiment rare: le sien, celui de Mapplethorpe et de toute la génération qui commence à gronder avec eux, dès 1967. "C'était l'été de la mort de Coltrane. Les enfants fleurs levaient leurs bras vides et la Chine faisait exploser la bombe H.A Monterey, Jimi Hendrix mettait le feu à sa guitare. (...)
Ames soeurs Pudique, le livre s'arrête avant la gloire, comme pour maintenir le projecteur braqué sur sa genèse. Patti Smith Reads From "Just Kids" Patti Smith - Gloria. Horses ~ Patti Smith Group ~ Live 1976. Patti Smith. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre.
Patti Smith Patti Smith au Provinssirock festival, Seinäjoki (Finlande) le 16 juin 2007. Biographie[modifier | modifier le code] Premières années[modifier | modifier le code] Patricia nait à Chicago, et grandit à Pitman, petite ville située dans le sud du New Jersey. 1967–1973 : New York[modifier | modifier le code] Patti Smith au Mannheimer Rosengarten (Mannheim), 1978 Déjà durant l’été 1968, Patti Smith affirme avoir pratiqué le dessin et en particulier réalisé une série d’autoportraits, en « imitant Frida Kahlo »[3]. En 1969, elle se rend à Paris avec sa sœur, où elles jouent dans la rue pour subvenir à leurs besoins. Patti Smith. Called the "Godmother of Punk",[3] her work is a fusion of rock and poetry.
Smith's most widely known song is "Because the Night", which was co-written with Bruce Springsteen and reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1978.[2] In 2005, Patti Smith was named a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture,[4] and in 2007, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.[5] On November 17, 2010, she won the National Book Award for her memoir Just Kids.[6] She is also a recipient of the 2011 Polar Music Prize.
Life and career[edit] 1946–1967: Early life[edit] 1967–1973: New York[edit]