One to follow his muse in a supporting role no matter how much his popping up in the wings may frustrate those longing for him to retake the spotlight, it's no surprise to hear Kevin Shields' glide guitar relegated here to volume-pedal swells and accents. This is Patti Smith's show, after all, an hour-long spoken-word prose poem written to honour the late-'80s passing of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, evocative fantasies (that "sea of possibilities" so famously sungspoken on
Horses) spilling out from death's sad, final truth, recorded on stage at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall in 2005, then 2006.
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