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Patti Smith: The Lady's For Returning

Mark Paytress, Guardian, The, 9 September 2006

PATTI SMITH knows a thing or two about rock'n'roll heroes. Emerging in a blaze of controversy with her epochal 1975 debut album, Horses, she wrapped herself in Dylan's iconic, mid-1960s apparel, aped Keith Richards' elegantly wasted countenance, and stole her moves from Jim Morrison.

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