Blog: State Magazine

‘I don’t fuck much with the past but I fuck plenty with the future’ Patti Smith may have announced in the first line of her poem ‘Babelogue’, which also provided the intro to ‘Rock’n’Roll Nigger’ from her third album Easter . These days, however, she would appear to spend a fair amount of time looking back, as indeed she is well-entitled to do, given the over 35 year span of her groundbreaking and influential career (with extended breaks for the domestic joys of house-keeping, child-rearing and private study), and which is evidenced by the release of this new compilation [...]

• Legacy Recordings - Gloria