"I spent a day with him and he was able to calm," Smith says of her longtime friend on the Jan. 8 episode the 'All There Is with Anderson Cooper' podcast Ilana Kaplan is a Staff Editor at PEOPLE. She ...

We’re told Patti Lupone was irriated by a fellow audience member at a performance of “Messy White Gays” over the weekend. Getty Images Patti Lupone is famous for dressing down audience members at her ...

“Palm Royale” Season 2 puts Patti LuPone front and center during her guest appearance as she takes the stage for an elaborate musical number—something she didn’t know about when she first agreed to ...

Into your starry eyes, baby. Patti Smith has been on tour all year, celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of Horses, her classic punk debut, released in November 1975. She brought the show to New York ...

*Patti LaBelle’s influence extends far beyond music—her passion for food has made her a beloved figure in kitchens across the country. With multiple cookbooks, her own lines of small-batch hot sauces ...

Born coughing, Patti Smith was a sickly kid. As she writes in her new memoir, “Bread of Angels,” “Mine was a Proustian childhood, one of intermittent quarantine and convalescence.” Her family moved ...

It’s a rare gray Saturday in Los Angeles; raindrops collect along a window overlooking a row of trees at Le Parc at Melrose. Light trickles its way into the hotel room, illuminating a brown coffee ...

Has there ever been a gutsier opening salvo in rock n’ roll? That’s how Patti Smith began her show Monday night at the Chicago Theatre, the line coming out slow and sinewy, and it’s how she started ...

“If you were wondering what the poem meant, I have no idea,” Patti Smith offered, after reading Rimbaud’s “Genie” on Monday night at the Paramount Theatre. “But, to me, it just means everything.” Just ...

With “Bread of Angels,” Patti Smith has finally given readers the long-awaited follow-up to 2010’s “Just Kids.” Unlike “M Train” (2015) and “Year of the Monkey” (2019), both of which mixed memoir with ...

In 1975, she transformed poetry into punk. Neither would ever be the same. More than 20 artists who made and admired the album share their memories. By Jon Pareles November 7th, 2025 Sex. Death.