Amerikos dainininkė, dainų autorė bei poetė Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith gimė 1946-ųjų metų gruodžio 30-ąją dieną. Ši atlikėja buvo svarbia persona punk roko judėjimo laikais, kuomet pristatė savo debiutinį 1975-ųjų metų albumą „Horses“. Dėl savo indėlio į šį žanrą ji net praminta „punk muzikos krikštamote“. Smith plačiausiai žinoma dėl savo kūrinio „Because the Night“, kuris buvo parašytas kartu su Bruce‘u Springsteen‘u ir pasiekė 13-ąją „Billboard Hot 100“ vietą (1978 metais). 2007-aisiais Patti Smith įtraukta į rokenrolo šlovės muziejų.
2015 m. birželio 29 d. 20:32:35
,,When you look back on the New York you knew in the seventies, how does it make you feel looking at what New York is like today?
It’s shocking, I still can’t believe it. Tom Verlaine and I lived in the East Village, we had a place that cost maybe a hundred dollars a month – six floor walk up with no bathroom – and now that same apartment is like a thousand dollars. Not only did it change aesthetically because they destroyed a lot of places, but the beauty of New York City for me was that people could come from all over – young people, people of any age – with ideas, with no money, but had creative instincts, or a plan, a design could come and get some cheap apartment, get a job at a book store as I did, and build their life. You can’t do that anymore; it’s a completely different economic structure. I mean I look at cafes and there are no people sitting around writing poetry anymore.
Just people with laptops…
Exactly. Just families, people with cell phones, business people, people setting up photo shoots and stuff like that. It’s a whole different atmosphere. It’s so stressful that I just leave. The way our big cities change sucks. People should be careful because we are losing the creativity. The beauty of cities was that they were edgy, sometimes even a little dangerous. Artists, poets, and activists could come and unify and create different kinds of scenes. Not just fashion scenes, scenes that were politically active. When I walk into a cafe these days with my notebook to write poetry, it is so stressful that I just leave. Big cities are getting so high-end oriented, business corporate fashion, fashion not in an artistic sense but in a corporate sense. I don’t know, for me that edgy beauty of cities is lost, wherever you go..."
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