About Patti Smith tickets

One of the most influential women in rock history, Patti Smith helped define the punk movement with her early work, and has shaped the image of the female rocker with her repeated contributions to the genre and her never-quit performance career. Like some other iconic figures in rock history, such as Bob Dylan, Patti Smith is a poet at heart, and after publishing collections of poetry in the early 1970s, she began her performing career as a spoken-word artist before setting her words to music and forming her band. Her first recording, of the song 'Piss Factory,' has become known as one of the first true 'punk' songs and gained her a loyal following early on. But it was Smith's debut album, Horses, a punk rock innovation before it was known as punk rock, that catapulted her career into the big time. Naming her band the Patti Smith Group, she released her second album, Radio Ethiopia before achieving her biggest commercial success with her third album, Easter, which included her breakthrough hit 'Because the Night,' co-written with Bruce Springsteen. Born in 1946 in Chicago, Patti Smith has earned a reputation as the 'Godmother of Punk,' but her performing talent transcends rock. It is an amalgam of penetrating words combined with music, and laced with a manic on-stage style that delivers the impact of her lyrics with a punctuating insistence. For that reason, you haven't really experienced Patti Smith's art until you're seen it live, and Patti Smith tickets are a chance to see one of rock's truly legendary figures, a performer whose influence will reverberate forever.