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What I wanted to do in rock'n'roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed so much to that were Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison.

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Patti Smith
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
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Patricia Lee Smith
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