Lenny Kaye

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Lenny Kaye

American musician and critic

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Patti Smith
Move to New York City and beginnings as an artist
…with the guitarist and critic Lenny Kaye. By 1973 they had formed a band and began performing widely in the downtown club scene. Continuing to identify as a poet—or, perhaps, seeing no dissonance between poetry and rock music—Smith published the collections Seventh Heaven (1972) and Wītt (1973) as her music…
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…with the guitarist and critic Lenny Kaye. By 1973 they had formed a band and began performing widely in the downtown club scene. Continuing to identify as a poet—or, perhaps, seeing no dissonance between poetry and rock music—Smith published the collections Seventh Heaven (1972) and Wītt (1973) as her music…
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punk
…when compilation albums such as Lenny Kaye’s Nuggets (1972) created a vogue for simple mid-1960s garage rock by groups such as the Seeds, the 13th Floor Elevators, and ? (Question Mark) and the Mysterians. Meanwhile, other American groups such as the MC5, Iggy and the Stooges,
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…when compilation albums such as Lenny Kaye’s Nuggets (1972) created a vogue for simple mid-1960s garage rock by groups such as the Seeds, the 13th Floor Elevators, and ? (Question Mark) and the Mysterians. Meanwhile, other American groups such as the MC5, Iggy and the Stooges,
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