Patti Smith: What is her appeal?

She's very talented.

Patti Smith: O Holy Night - [Live ...

I think her appeal is that of poet / prophet for many people.

[quote]Patti Smith: What is her appeal?

She's younger than springtime and *twice* as exciting.

She's hideous.

Well, it's certainly not her breath.

Patti Smith performs Bob Dylan's "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" - Nobel Prize Award Ceremony 2016

She released a classic 80's bop.

She's talented but not *that* talented. I thought her music got the appropriate amount of praise but I've always been baffled by the way white liberal NPR types decided her memoirs were Literature and now they treat her like she's some kind of saint.

Back in the 1970s Patti thought it was appropriate and expected for her to play the role of the obnoxious mean she-punk druggie/poet/singer. The problem with that is people's impressions of your poor behavior and interactions can linger decades later. I've always been a fan of Patti Smith's music, but she did have that nasty reputation in the 1970s. Yes she's mellowed after she unofficially retired and moved to Detroit to be a housewife and mother for about 15 years. It's good that Keith McNally called her on her repugnant 1970s persona in his memoirs.

Yes but he let her come back to the restaurant repeatedly.

R11 It wasn't his restaurant at the time, this was mid-late 1970s at One Fifth (1/5) Restaurant.

She did a good job with Springsteen's Because the Night. That's all I can say.

I never got her appeal.

She did a fantastic version of So You Wanna Be a rock and Roll Star. "I'm not a big Patti Smith fan, but her version of that song is exactly how Chris Hillman and I intended it." "You know, I really like it a lot" --Roger McGuinn in ROLLING STONE, 1979

She also sang You Light Up My Life on Wonderama with the pervert author Joe Brooks.

I thought I read she was rude to Debbie Harry, unprovoked.

Ditto. Just discovered Patti Smith is not a black singer instead she is-something else…

Way overrated

In concert, she used to pull her bloody tampon out of her vadge and toss it into the crowd.

SMDH

Patti Smith has always been a total cunt.

[quote]I thought I read she was rude to Debbie Harry, unprovoked.

She was insanely jealous of Debbie Harry.

BTW Debbie Harry is an absolute sweetheart, she's a lovely person.

[quote]She did a good job with Springsteen's Because the Night.

AI sayz: "The song "Because the Night" was co-written by Bruce Springsteen and Patti Smith. Springsteen initially wrote the music and the chorus, but then gave the unfinished song to Smith, who completed the lyrics and recorded it for her 1978 album, Easter."

[quote]R21 BTW Debbie Harry is an absolute sweetheart, she's a lovely person.

Eh, most junkies are mild mannered… when they’re not stealing your radio for a fix.

"Patti thought it was appropriate and expected for her to play the role of the obnoxious mean she-punk"

Me too! But in the 90s.

Her autobiography is one of the most pretentious things I've ever read. It made me hate her and Robert Maplethorpe

Is she a Rockaway resident?