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Patti Smith's Horses at Meltdown: Royal Festival Hall, London

Tim Cooper, The Independent, 27 June 2005

PATTI SMITH IS standing alone on the stage reciting the poem that describes her teenage dream to escape a blue-collar production line ("Inspecting pipe, 40 hours, $36 a week") and go to New York City to express herself as an artist.

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