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• Patti Smith, “the first publishing poetess to turn her entire poetry into Rockn Roll and lure experimental rock fans into the forbidden cinema of her hallucinating fantasy” (New York Times), started as a lateral. In the beginning Lenny Kaye accompanied her author readings on the guitar, star photographer Robert Mapplethorpe contributed money for the underground cult single “Hey Joe”.
  Encouraged by the success, Smith delivered “Horses” in 1975, an album on which she melts rock riffs and speech rhythms into a punky-trashy sound mixture. The scene was electrified, fabulised of the “best garage sound of the 70s” (“Creem”) and suspected that Smith had “pulled the stuff of Rimbaud, Burroughs, Dylan and Velvet Underground onto a hot syringe and pressed it under his skin” (“Sounds”).
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