Helen R Brown

Patti Smith grows old too gracefully

According to her memoir M Train, the high priestess of punk now lives a quiet life, watching ITV3 and feeding the cat

Patti Smith posed in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1976 (Photo by Gijsbert Hanekroot/Redferns/Getty Images)

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