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American singer-songwriter Patti Smith is sharing her reaction to being mentioned on Taylor Swift's new album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” alongside Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. The 77-year ...
Smith and Thomas, who died in in 1953 at the age of 39, have each held residence at the historic venue -- alongside a laundry list of other historical figures including Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen ...
“You’re not Dylan Thomas/ I’m not Patti Smith/ This ain’t the Chelsea Hotel/ We’re modern idiots,” Swift sings in the chorus of the track. The same night the album was released, Smith ...
Patti Smith. Patricia Lee Smith (born December 30, 1946) is an American singer, songwriter, poet, painter, and author whose 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.
Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) [1] was a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "And death shall have no dominion", as well as the "play for voices" Under Milk Wood. He also wrote stories and radio broadcasts such as A Child's Christmas in Wales and Portrait of ...
John Cale set a number of Thomas's poems to music: There was a saviour, Do not go gentle into that good night, On a Wedding Anniversary and Lie still, sleep becalmed, recording them in his 1989 album Words for the Dying and (except for the first one) in his 1992 solo live album Fragments of a Rainy Season.
Swift, 34, name-drops Smith in the title track of the new album, singing the lyrics, "You’re not Dylan Thomas, I’m not Patti Smith / This ain’t the Chelsea Hotel / We’re modern idiots."
The 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan (born 1941) "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition". [1] The prize was announced by the Swedish Academy on 13 October 2016. [2] He is the 12th Nobel laureate from the United States .