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Fred "Sonic" Smith. Frederick Dewey Smith (September 14, 1948 – November 4, 1994), known professionally as Fred " Sonic " Smith, was an American guitarist and member of the rock band MC5. He married and raised two children with poet and fellow rock musician Patti Smith. The couple also collaborated musically.
Frederick (song) " Frederick " is a song written by Patti Smith, and released as lead single from Patti Smith Group 1979 album Wave. The song is dedicated to Fred "Sonic" Smith, guitar player of the Detroit band MC5 and Smith's future husband. The melody of "Frederick" is a homage to Bruce Springsteen 's live arrangement of "Prove It All Night ...
Website. pattismith.net. Patricia Lee Smith (born December 30, 1946) is an American singer, songwriter, poet, painter, author and photographer. Her 1975 debut album Horses made her an influential member of the New York City -based punk rock movement. [ 1 ] Smith has fused rock and poetry in her work.
In 1980, Smith got married to Fred “Sonic” Smith of MC5, moved to Michigan, and left public life for 16 years to raise a family. Around this time, Smith tells me, a drawing of her appeared in ...
See media help. Dream of Life was her first album after the dissolution of The Patti Smith Group, and the only album that she made with her husband Fred "Sonic" Smith. Lead single "People Have the Power" received some album-oriented rock airplay at the time, and later was revived by Michael Stipe as a theme song for the 2004 Vote for Change ...
Smith was accepting on behalf of her late husband, MC5 guitarist Fred "Sonic" Smith. ... Patti Smith, the acclaimed New York punk poet, recalled sneaking into the abandoned train station with her ...
People Have the Power. " People Have the Power " is a rock song written by Patti Smith and Fred "Sonic" Smith, and released as a lead single from Patti Smith's 1988 album Dream of Life. The cover photograph is by Robert Mapplethorpe. The music video is filmed mostly in black-and-white and features Patti Smith singing, writing and walking.
Gone Again is the sixth studio album by Patti Smith, released June 18, 1996, on Arista Records.The production of the record was preceded by the deaths of many of Smith's close friends and peers, including her husband Fred "Sonic" Smith, her brother Todd, Robert Mapplethorpe, Richard Sohl and Kurt Cobain, with whom Smith had sympathized.