Patti Smith Reads Her Remaining Letter to Robert Mapplethorpe, Calling Him “the Most Stunning Work of All”
When you go to listen to Patti Smith in concert, you count on her to sing “Beneath the Southern Cross,” “As a result of the Night time,” and virtually 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…