Patti Smith – Poetry with a microphone and a snarl
The first line of Horses does not ask permission: a CBGB poetry reading pushed up to rock volume.
What if Patti Smith had never moved to New York?
Patti Smith remains in New Jersey in 1967. She works through poetry rooms, college radio and clubs across the river from New York.
Interview of Patti Smith (1978)
Tom Snyder's 1978 conversation with Patti Smith catches her after Horses had already changed the New York rock scene and in the year of Easter, when Because the Night put her on the radio.