Ocupation: Singer-songwriter
Life: b. December 30, 1946
Birthday: December 30
In 1974, when I started working with the material that became Horses, a lot of our great voices had died. We'd lost Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin, and people like Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.
source: "Patti Smith: punk poet queen". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2013.
topic: Horse, Kings, Voice, Great Voice