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Contents 1 Not the 'y' one 2 Very confusing edit 3 Correction or vandalism? 4 Wave / sonic 5 Sonic Youth 6 Heart attack? 7 Patty Smith (note: the "y") 8 Please remove vandalism

[edit] Not the 'y' one

Not to be confused with Patty Smyth, another American female artist.

[edit] Very confusing edit

extensive edit by Cacycle with edit summary "reverted vandalism by 24.235.144.129. She is NOT married to McEnroe, that's Patty Smyth". 24.235.144.129 had last edited several days earlier [1], but nothing in the article before or after 24.235.144.129's edit or Cacycle made any claim that Patti Smith was married to McEnroe.

Cacycle is an admin, so I presume he knows what he's doing, but this is very confusing. Among the material removed by his edit is a lot of detail in Smith's early biography (most of it accurate, I believe, though possibly not all of it) and what seems to me like some reasonably good material about the album Horses. Cacycle, I'd sure appreciate if you would expand on your edit summary. -- Jmabel | Talk 22:17, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

24.235.144.129 is a vandal, he has sneaked in wrong facts and dates into several articles (e.g. a wrong birthday for Patty Smith). I have reverted his edit which was not noticed earlier. I took the version directly before the vandalism and added the changes made after the vandalism. One of those later changes stated that she is married to "Macenroe". Feel free to improve the article, but please double-check everything 24.235.144.129 has added. Hope this helps, Cacycle 01:26, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

That's fine, I was just confused by the edit summary. -- Jmabel | Talk 19:42, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

Patti Smith was never married to kurt Cobain, and About A Boy was not exactly a tribute. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 204.9.234.202 (talk • contribs) 14 August 2006.

[edit] Correction or vandalism?

Uncommented anonymous edit changed "When her son, Jackson, turned 21, Smith decided to move back to New York" to "When her son, Jackson, turned 12, Smith decided to move back to New York." No citation for either one. -- Jmabel | Talk 21:06, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wave / sonic

The comment "Following the release of Wave, Smith, ... met Fred "Sonic" Smith," is misleading. "Frederick" on Wave is about Sonic who was surely her partner by then.

Her official arista biography is quoted as saying ""Dancing Barefoot" and "Frederick" were inspired by the new love in her life, Fred "Sonic" Smith" - http://www.oceanstar.com/patti/bio/aristbio.htm

allmusic says she was living with Allen Lanier before that. Where did Jim Carroll fit in ? http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:0rk9ikbhbb89~T1

-- Beardo 06:08, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sonic Youth

What about a mention of Sonic Youth as they have done various tribues to Patty SmithJohnRussell 05:13, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Heart attack?

I thought Fred died of cancer. 12 May 2006

I am also confused by this. While I'm pretty sure the official cause of death was "heart failure", I thought he was in poor health for quite a while before that, and his death was not "a sudden heart attack". I don't have a verifiable source for this, but I thought he had Multiple Sclerosis. ~ Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 07:28, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Judging from the brief account of his waning health in Patti Smith Complete: Lyrics, Reflections and Notes for the Future, I'm pretty sure it was not a sudden thing.

[edit] Patty Smith (note: the "y")

Patty Smith used to be a redirect to this article. I turned it into a disambig page, so people can choose between Patty Smyth and Patti Smith. --Rob 23:52, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Please remove vandalism

The line "But she is just another irrelevant burnout whom certain media figures TELL you is popular, relevant, or worthy." is in the "Political Engagement" section, but I can't edit it to remove it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 76.169.228.162 (talk) 03:24, 13 March 2007 (UTC).