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Five decades have gone by since Patti Smith released her 1975 debut album Horses. The landmark 1975 studio project featured some of rock’s most classic cuts, including the opener “Gloria: In Excelsis Deo,” “Redondo Beach,” and “Break It Up.” This fall, Smith is set to embark on a 50th anniversary tour across the globe to celebrate her Seventies masterpiece. Shortly after kicking off the worldwide trek, Smith will drop the 50th anniversary edition of Horses, including a double vinyl LP.
Now available to order online and in stores Oct. 10, Smith’s Horses (50th Anniversary) edition includes Smith’s RCA audition recording, unreleased outtakes, along with remastered tracks from the album’s “original master tapes,” according to the record’s description.
Patti Smith ‘Horses’
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In our list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, Rolling Stone described Smith’s debut LP as “a declaration of mutiny, a statement of faith in the transfigurative powers of rock & roll.
“Horses made her the queen of punk (her CBGB buddy Tom Verlaine of Television co-wrote the Jim Morrison tribute ‘Break It Up’), but Smith cared more for the poetry in rock. She sought the visions and passions that connected Keith Richards and Rimbaud — and found them, with the intuitive assistance of a killer band (pianist Richard Sohl, guitarist Lenny Kaye, bassist Ivan Kral, and drummer Jay Dee Daugherty) and her friend Robert Mapplethorpe, who shot the cover portrait. ‘The real thing,’ Smith later said, ‘was to keep rock & roll in the hands of the people.’”
In March, Smith hit the stage at Carnegie Hall in New York City for a star-studded tribute show, which included performances from Bruce Springsteen, Michael Stipe, and Karen O. Later this year, Smith will publish her next memoir, Bread of Angels, on Nov. 4.
Patti Smith ‘Bread of Angels’
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“The most intimate of Smith’s memoirs, Bread of Angels takes us through her teenage years where the first glimmers of art and romance take hold,” the memoir’s synopsis reads. “Arthur Rimbaud and Bob Dylan emerge as creative role models as she begins to write poetry then lyrics, ultimately merging both into the songs of iconic recordings such as Horses, Wave, and Easter.”
