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Patti Smith’s new memoir, Bread of Angels, arrives on a significant date. On November 4, 1946, Smith’s artistic soulmate and first true love, the late photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, was born. Forty-eight years later, on the same day, her “king among men”, beloved husband and fellow musician, Fred “Sonic” Smith, died…

She became an 80s pop icon – and a media hate figure. Now, reforming her group after more than 30 years, James recalls her painful path through through the music business, surviving ‘Harvey Weinstein-type’ situations, and working with punk’s finest

As a film drawing on Pallenberg’s autobiography opens, her son Marlon Richards talks about life with her and Keith

The 50th anniversary edition of the album does justice to its emotional depth for a new generation of vinyl lovers

Half a century on from its release, we track down the surviving artists from the hugely influential record and hear how the double LP changed their lives and careers