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Patti Smith: Gone again.
PATTI SMITH
GONE AGAIN
ARISTA, 1996
With the release of Gone Again, punk's original poster girl, Patti Smith, is back with a vengeance-and not a minute too soon. Thanks to a rock press now obsessed with the origins of punk, her legend was beginning to overshadow her music.
A fixture in the New York underground (Smith was romantically involved with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe), Smith released four albums between 1975 and '79 and garnered a Top 20 hit with her cover of Bruce Springsteen's Because The Night. Her raw power and kick-ass attitude was immortalized by the late Gilda Rander in a recurring Saturday Night Live character called …
