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Patti Smith

Jaan Uhelszki, Harp, September 2004

BY FRONTING her own rock band – issuing lyrical missives from the depths of her fertile unconscious that rivalled anything that Bob Dylan ever scribbled on the back of a cocktail napkin – Patti Smith redefined women who rock.

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