Patti Smith

One of the earliest and most important influences on punk rock (not to mention on post-punk female songwriters like PJ Harvey), Patti Smith mated French Symbolist poetry with rock & roll, creating a musical style to match. In the process, she further shattered rock's gender barrier. Her 1975 album, HORSES, is one of the most seminal, acclaimed rock records of all time. Ironically, her biggest hit came with a 1978 version of Bruce Springsteen's "Because the Night." Smith spent much of the '80s and '90s away from the music business, but re-entered the fray in earnest starting with 1996's lauded GONE AGAIN.

• Blondie
• Bruce Springsteen
• David Roter Method
• Jim Carroll
• Johnny Thunders/Patti Palladin
• Richard Hell
• Talking Heads
• Television
• The Dictators
• The Ramones
• Todd Rundgren

• Allen Ginsberg
• Bob Dylan
• David Bowie
• Jack Kerouac
• James Brown
• Jimi Hendrix
• New York Dolls
• The Doors
• The Rolling Stones
• Iggy & The Stooges
• The Velvet Underground
• William S. Burroughs

• Babes In Toyland
• Bikini Kill
• Casey Scott
• Cat Power
• Exene Cervenka
• Helium
• Hole
• Kathy Acker
• L7
• Liz Phair
• Maggie Estep
• Pat Benatar
• PJ Harvey
• Sleater-Kinney
• The Pretenders

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