Well, diva Patti Labelle has been thrilling music fans for more than four decades. |
The year's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees were Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, R. E. M., the Ronettes, Patti Smith, and Van Halen. |
Of course this was before she made like Patti LaBelle and got a new attitude. |
I first encountered Patti Smith's music in 1985, at the age of seventeen. |
Books I'm halfway through Patti Smith's memoir Just Kids, which is heart-stoppingly vivid. |
Patti said kilometers are shorter than miles, but the walk was still really long. |