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• The Observer

  Sam Shepard bares his soul

  With a new collection of short stories to his name and two of his plays currently showing in New York, the notoriously private Pulitzer prize-winner discusses masculinity, his battle with drink and his 'tumultuous' relationship

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• The Malaysian Insider

  Rock poet Patti Smith to be honoured

  LOS ANGELES, March 20 — Punk rock pioneer Patti Smith will receive a lifetime achievement award from the music industry next month in honor of her genre-bending 40-year career as singer, poet, political activist and painter.

  Smith, 63, w

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• The Guardian

  Once upon a life: Nick Kent

  In 1972 he was sorting mail in a Sussex post office. Twelve months later he was partying with Led Zeppelin. Here, the hugely influential music critic Nick Kent looks back on a year in which he witnessed the birth of punk, the ar

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• Digital Spy

  Patti Smith to receive lifetime award

  Punk rocker Patti Smith will receive a lifetime achievement award during the ASCAP awards dinner.

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• The Guardian

  Why poetry and pop are not such strange bedfellows

  What is it about Yeats that is so attractive to rock stars, and why does Auden have the crowd moshing at the Forum? Graeme Thomson meets the musicians turning poetry into pop

  One day in 2005, Mike Scott decamped to his mus

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• TheaterMania.com

  Los Angeles: Patti Smith to Receive ASCAP's Lifetime Achievement Award

  Patti Smith will receive the Founders Award at ASCAP's annual pop music awards dinner, to be held at the Renaissance Hotel in Hollywood, on April 21, according to Reuters. Smith, who pioneered punk rock, will also perform at the event. In a stat

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• Reuters.co.uk

  Rock poet Patti Smith to be honoured by music industry

  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Punk rock pioneer Patti Smith will receive a lifetime achievement award from the music industry next month in honour of her genre-bending 40-year career as singer, poet, political activist and painter.

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• The Guardian

  Carly Simon | Pop review

  Maida Vale Studios, London

  Fresh from revelations that her biggest hit, You're So Vain, might be about a man called David, Carly Simon does another surprising thing tonight: she plays her first ever concert in the UK. Now

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