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Five Great Reads: New York’s favourite dive bar, coping with chronic fatigue, and a royal biographer spills the beans

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Imogen Dewey

The Guardian - AU

‘The bathrooms were rank, but we didn’t care’: how the grimy-but-great CBGB changed rock for ever

Half a century ago, the famed New York venue run by a former marine and folk singer was ground zero for the punk and new wave scenes. Now the bands who played there are being celebrated on a 101-track box set

The Guardian - UK

The life-affirming gospel according to Patti Smith

Patti Smith, once again, shows us a better way to be ourselves

Evening Standard

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‘How should I cast my soul?’ Patti Smith’s intimate new memoir is a quest for her true self

Patti Smith’s new memoir, Bread of Angels, arrives on a significant date. On November 4, 1946, Smith’s artistic soulmate and first true love, the late photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, was born. Forty-eight years later, on the same day, her “king among men”, beloved husband and fellow musician, Fred “Sonic” Smith, died…

The Conversation

‘I don’t miss the clamour of people’s adulation’: Transvision Vamp’s Wendy James on scandals, reunions and her beef with Elvis Costello

She became an 80s pop icon – and a media hate figure. Now, reforming her group after more than 30 years, James recalls her painful path through through the music business, surviving ‘Harvey Weinstein-type’ situations, and working with punk’s finest

The Guardian - UK

Blondie, The Ramones, and the greatest CBGB bands

Blondie drummer Clem Burke died at the weekend aged 70. In tribute here is a look at the scene that forged around the legendary New York venue, CBGB

Evening Standard

Patti Smith’s Horses at 50: How a reluctant musician made a punk-rock classic

IN FOCUS: Patti Smith’s groundbreaking debut has influenced generations of musicians. But it took a producer four years to persuade Smith to enter the studio. As the album approaches its 50th birthday, Fiona Sturges reflects on how Smith overcame the misogyny of the time and pays tribute to a masterpiece…

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‘The drugs were so new, they weren’t illegal yet’: the debauched rise of New York’s wildest bar

It was a seedy hotbed of sex, drugs, edgy music and A-list celebrities where Lou Reed and Andy Warhol partied alongside Blondie and Bowie. How did Max’s Kansas City fall apart?

The Guardian - UK

“No-one had brought an electric guitar in the church before… it caused a bit of a stir”: Patti Smith on her controversial first gig – and why rock belongs to the people

The punk poet laureate continues to inspire generations of artists

Guitar World

‘She enjoyed her power over men’: memoir reveals anarchic life of Rolling Stones’ muse Anita Pallenberg

As a film drawing on Pallenberg’s autobiography opens, her son Marlon Richards talks about life with her and Keith

The Guardian - UK

Wings' rich "Red Rose Speedway" remaster

The 50th anniversary edition of the album does justice to its emotional depth for a new generation of vinyl lovers

Salon

‘It paved the way for all of us’: the classic garage rock compilation Nuggets at 50

Half a century on from its release, we track down the surviving artists from the hugely influential record and hear how the double LP changed their lives and careers

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