24/08/2025
"I always enjoyed doing transgender songs. That's something I learnt from Joan Baez, who often sang songs that had a male point of view." (Patti Smith)
Patti Smith's outlandish 1975 debut, 'Horses' was a landmark album whose stature grows with every passing year. Next month, as curator of the Meltdown festival, she will play it in its entirety on stage for the first time. Here she tells Simon Reynolds about the birth of a record that shaped a gener...
