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  • In 1974, when I started working with the material that became Horses, a lot of our great voices had died. We'd lost Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin, and people like Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.

    "Patti Smith: punk poet queen". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2013.