"If you go to hear Patti Smith in concert, you expect her to sing 'Beneath the Southern Cross,' 'Because the Night,' and almost certainly 'People Have the Power,' the hit single from Dream of Life. Like her 1975 debut Horses, that album had a cover photo by Robert Mapplethorpe, whom Smith describes as 'the artist of my life' in Just Kids, her memoir of their long and complex relationship. A highly personal work, that book also includes the text of the brief but powerful goodbye letter she wrote to Mapplethorpe, who died of AIDS in 1989. If you go to hear Smith read a letter aloud, there’s a decent chance it’ll be that one. ..."
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