release - 1979
album art - Maude Gilma
Robert Mapplethorpe
cover front
The front cover shows Patti, as an angel of serenity, with two pigions: symbols of peace.
cover back
The back cover shows the Patti Smith Group.
The original LP back cover bore the quote of the Jean Genet poem, 'Le Condamné à mort':
'Oh go through the walls; if you must, walk on the ledges. Of roofs, of oceans; cover yourself with light; Use menace, use prayer… My sleepers will flee toward another America.'
This might be the connection with the front cover.
inseert
The insert shows the lyrics of Frederick and the album credits. Frederick was the first single of the album; a love song for her bandmember and 'husband-to-be' Fred 'Sonic' Smith.
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The insert also shows another photo of Patti. Maybe Patti was 'Dancing barefoot' here!? (second song of the album).
artist
Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith (born December 30, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, poet, and visual artist. By 1974, Patti Smith was performing rock music, initially with guitarist, bassist and rock archivist Lenny Kaye, and later with a full band comprising Kaye, Ivan Kral (guitar & bass), Jay Dee Daugherty (drums) and Richard Sohl (piano). Smith became an influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses.
Smith fused rock and poetry in her work. Her most widely known song is Because the Night, which was co-written with Bruce Springsteen. In 2005, Patti Smith was named a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. In 2007, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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