Patti Smith: Avery Fisher Hall, NYC
Mitchell Cohen, Phonograph Record, May 1976
FOR SOME OF US, Patti Smith is the girl of our rock and roll dreams. As a performer she doesn't merely flirt with danger, she seduces it, trying at the same time to be both audacious and ingratiating, to challenge an audience and win it over.
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