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Artist News
Patti Smith writing Just Kids sequel
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 19 December 2012
Patti Smith is soon to publish a second edition of the story that began with her 2010 memoir ‘Just Kids’. Whilst the original detailed her relationship with late photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, Smith says its sequel “will be more, perhaps, music-based”.
She adds: “It’s in the ‘Just Kids’ vein and even in the similar time period, but shifts more to family, Fred [Smith, MC5 guitarist and Smith’s late husband], music. So it’s a different perspective”.
She also notes: “I don’t have a big rock n roll lifestyle, a sex, drugs and rock N roll story to tell. I think I have maybe a better story. Through rock n roll I travelled the world, worked with my late brother and, best of all, that’s how I met Fred. It changed my life in many unexpected ways, so I have my story to tell”.
