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Patti Smith

Robert Sandall, The Sunday Times, 8 April 2007

Nearly 30 years ago, Patti Smith turned her back on rock'n'roll. The woman they called the female Bob Dylan quit, choosing obscurity and her family over wealth and fame. Robert Sandall found her in Paris on a mission to roll back the years

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