Born coughing, Patti Smith was a sickly kid. As she writes in her new memoir, “Bread of Angels,” “Mine was a Proustian childhood, one of intermittent quarantine and convalescence.” Her family moved ...

It’s a rare gray Saturday in Los Angeles; raindrops collect along a window overlooking a row of trees at Le Parc at Melrose. Light trickles its way into the hotel room, illuminating a brown coffee ...

Has there ever been a gutsier opening salvo in rock n’ roll? That’s how Patti Smith began her show Monday night at the Chicago Theatre, the line coming out slow and sinewy, and it’s how she started ...

This will mark the LuPone's sixth appearance on the late-night talk show. During her previous visit, she has famously shared her opinions about various parts of the entertainment industry, including ...

With “Bread of Angels,” Patti Smith has finally given readers the long-awaited follow-up to 2010’s “Just Kids.” Unlike “M Train” (2015) and “Year of the Monkey” (2019), both of which mixed memoir with ...

Inside, never-before-revealed stories of the beloved musician's teenage years, lifelong role models, marriage to Fred "Sonic" Smith, and more. By Stacia Datskovska If you purchase an independently ...

This is FRESH AIR. Patti Smith, known as the grandmother of punk, has received several honors, including an induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and the French Legion of Honor. But for our book ...

Punk rock pioneer Patti Smith didn’t know who her biological father was until getting an assist from the daughter she put up for adoption decades earlier, she reveals in her new memoir, out Tuesday.

Patti Smith has reaped many honors in her life. She’s been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, won a National Book Award and been granted France’s Légion d’honneur. She’s also earned the ...

The spark that started the fire between Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa was there from the beginning. However, it was left to smolder for a few years before fate took its course. But there was no ...

I wonder why Patti LaBelle is not in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Her career started in the early ’60s, performing with the Ordettes, Patti Labelle and the Bluebelles, and Labelle. She went solo in ...

It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of Joseph Salvator Patti and Joan DeNunzio Patti of Pleasanton, California, who tragically lost their lives in a car accident on September 25, ...