![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “M Train,” Smith’s new book, described as “an odyssey,” is ostensibly about nothing much - is a memoir with a wavelike rhythm. When asked recently by New York magazine how she had decided what to wear to shoot the 2016 Pirelli calendar, she said, “I always pretty much wear the same thing, so I wore my clothes.” ![]() If that’s the case, she was probably listed as a “style icon,” with long braids (dark, or silver gray, depending on the era of the photograph), black jeans, perhaps a white shirt, leather boots and black coat, unsmiling but still somehow holding onto an air of warm solidity. If you’re under 30, it might have been for “Just Kids,” her National Book Award-winning memoir of her relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe - or maybe you even saw her for the first time on Instagram, or in a fashion magazine. If you’re around 40 or so, hers might have been one of the names you associated with the aging cool of New York punk, author of the albums “Gone Again” and “Peace and Noise,” and the favorite musician of every one of your favorite musicians. When did you first hear of Patti Smith? If you’re close to Smith’s age, which is 68, it might have been in the 1970s, when she was one of the big names of the New York punk scene, or perhaps with “Horses,” her first record, now 40 years old, which she recently performed for a small room of music people and old friends at Electric Lady studio in Greenwich Village. ![]()
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