Patti Smith

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Punk rock pioneer Patti Smith will receive a lifetime achievement award from the music industry next month in honour of her genre-bending 40-year career as singer, poet, political activist and painter.  

Patti Smith will receive the Founders Award at ASCAPs annual pop music awards dinner, to be held at the Renaissance Hotel in Hollywood, on April 21, according to Reuters. Smith, who pioneered punk rock, will also perform at the event. In a statement, ASCAP president and CEO Paul Williams is...  

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Patti Smith was 20 years old when she landed in New York City, an aspiring artist, naive and uncertain of her direction but willing to embrace whatever experience came her way. Pregnant at 16, she had given up the child for adoption. Now she was under the influence of the French surrealist poet Arthur Rimbaud, a muse to dreamers everywhere, and had an accurate sense of being an outsider in a world that seemed in the midst of great change.  

This week's highlights included Patti Smith in 1970s New York, the Billy Bunter childhood of Max Hastings and Jarvis Cocker's 6 Music campaignRadio has done Patti Smith proud over the last week or so, with a wonderful adaptation of Just Kids, her account of her beginnings as an artist in 1970s New York, as Book of the Week on Radio 4 – you can still catch the last instalment on the iPlayer. On Tuesday she spoke to Mark Radcliffe (Radio 2...  

Patti Smith was among the acts who performed at the Music of the Who, a benefit concert at Carnegie Hall. Others included Robyn Hitchcock, Living Colour, Bobby McFerrin and Mose Allison. Bettye LaVette also performed. One was Patti Smith , seizing ...  

Rock icon Patti Smith recalls burroughs and Mapplethorpe, the early days of CBGB, and saddling up for Horses in this memoir excerpt The stars were lining up to enter the Ziegfeld Theatre for the glittering premiere of the film Ladies & Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones. I was excited to be there. The stars were lining up to enter the Ziegfeld Theatre for the glittering premiere of the film Ladies & Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones. I was...  

photos by Chris La Putt Performances by Iggy Pop, Patti Smith and Gogol Bordello brought the crowd at Carnegie Hall to its feet on Friday night, as the musicians took part in the 20th annual Tibet House benefit. The concerts,...  

Patti Smith's JUST KIDS is the read for creatives and a special treat for us baby boomers. As Smith tells us in her book she was born in 1946. With cleverness and touching emotion she journeys back to those days...  

If you missed Patti Smith this past Sunday at the Harold Washington Library - and from what I've heard, it sounds like there was quite a line - you can here her discuss Just Kids, New York, and Robert Mapplethorpe courtesy of WBEZ (h/t John). [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]  

2010 is the Year of the Memoir (although in the Lunar calendar - the Chinese New Year that we celebrated on February 14, it is the Year of The Tiger).Patti Smith has a brilliant memoir entitled JUST KIDS and she is currently touring behind it.If you are in England, you're in luck, for the tour brings Patti to you next month!Click here for tour dates.Photo above was taken at the California Theatre in San Diego, CA. May 1978.  

After last night's sold-out show at the Park West, Patti Smith will read from and sign Just Kids, her memoir about New York in the 60s and 70s and her relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, at 2pm at the Harold Washington Library (400 S. State, 312-747-4300). [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]  

Patti Smith’s Just Kids is ostensibly about her long-running romantic and professional entanglements with photographer and provocateur Robert Mapplethorpe, but the book is at its most rewarding when it’s following blind alleys. Run-ins with a blissed-out Jimi Hendrix, collaborations with playwright Sam Shepard, accidental dates with Allen Ginsberg over cheese sandwiches: This meandering memoir is rife with juicy snapshots of ’70s New York cool...  

Patti Smith steps onstage with a shy, joyous grin, as if still surprised by the applause. At the Hammer Museum's Billy Wilder Theater to perform a tribute to her friend, the late folk archivist, filmmaker and painter Harry Smith, she rests her coffee cup on a stool and reads pass...  

DETROIT — She may drop a bit more profanity than the tourism bureau might deem appropriate, but Detroit definitely has a booster in Patti Smith. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame singer, songwriter and poet did, after all, live in this parts (St ...