Musicians Who Set the Stage for Rock and Roll

Patti Smith

Patti Smith woke up the world when she released her debut album "Horses" in 1975. Smith mashed rock with poetry, driving the punk movement to focus their energy on activism instead of violence onto one another. Smith was the chariot driver of the beat generation, and when young new yorkers weren't reading Keroack and dreaming of running away to South America, they were listening to her. 

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