Dancing Barefoot: The Patti Smith Story (27 page)

How indeed?

Patti and her parents, Grant and Beverly Smith.
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Patti, like so many of her generation, describes the French poet Rimbaud as her first hero.

The rare first edition of Patti’s first poetry collection,
Seventh Heaven.
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Lenny Kaye. He and Patti met in a record store in 1971, and they are still performing together today.
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Tom Verlaine of Television.

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Patti and Richard “DNV” Sohl, the keyboard-playing heart of the original Patti Smith Group.
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The 1977 reissue of Patti, Lenny Kaye, Richard Sohl, and a passing Tom Ver-laine’s first record.
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The brilliant Czech guitarist Ivan Kral.
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The final piece of the jigsaw. Jay Dee Daugherty played his first gig with Patti the night she met Bob Dylan.
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A classic Patti Smith bootleg, featuring the Keith Richards T-shirt Patti sometimes wore in performance.
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One of the most iconic images of the 1970s, Robert Mapplethorpe’s photograph of Patti stares out from the anniversary rerelease of her debut LP.
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One of the rarest of all Patti’s books, her collaboration with Television’s Tom Verlaine.
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Patti—dancing in another dimension.
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