Patti Smith has announced Bread of Angels, a new memoir set to arrive on November 4th.
The book follows previous Smith memoirs Just Kids (2010), M Train (2015), and Year of the Monkey (2019). Described as her “most intimate” memoir in a statement, Bread of Angels covers Smith’s teenage years and early music career, including her relationships with MC5 guitarist Fred “Sonic” Smith and her late friend/partner/confidant Robert Mapplethorpe, her foray into poetry, and the writing and recording of seminal albums like Horses and Easter.
The synopsis reads: “As Smith suffers profound losses, grief and gratitude are braided through years of caring for her children, rebuilding her life, and, finally, writing again—the one constant on a path driven by artistic freedom and the power of the imagination to transform the mundane into the beautiful, the commonplace into the magical, and pain into hope.”
The November 4th release of Bread of Angels will coincide with Smith’s 50th anniversary tour commemorating Horses, which arrived on November 10th, 1975. Meanwhile, November 4th was also Mapplethorpe’s birthday, so it’s a day of remembrance this year for Smith. Her Horses anniversary tour kicks off in October in Europe and will hit North America starting with a Seattle date on November 10th; see her full list of tour dates below and get tickets here.
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Patti Smith was also recently honored with an all-star tribute concert at New York’s Carnegie Hall, with performances from Michael Stipe, Bruce Springsteen, Flea, Karen O, Maggie Rogers, and many more.
Patti Smith 2025 Tour Dates:
10/06 – Dublin, Ireland @ 3Arena
10/08 – Madrid, Spain @ Teatro Real
10/10 – Bergamo, Italy @ Chorus Life Arena
10/12 – London, UK @ The Palladium
10/13 – London, UK @ The Palladium
10/15 – Brussels, Belgium @ Cirque Royale
10/16 – Brussels, Beligum @ Cirque Royale
10/18 – Oslo, Norway @ Sentrum Scene
10/20 – Paris, France @ The Olympia
10/21 – Paris, France @ The Olympia
11/10 – Seattle, WA @ The Paramount Theatre
11/12 – Oakland, CA @ The Fox Theatre
11/13 – San Francisco, CA @ The Masonic
11/15 – Los Angeles, CA @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
11/17 – Chicago, IL @ The Chicago Theatre
11/21 – New York, NY @ The Beacon
11/22 – New York, NY @ The Beacon
11/24 – Boston, MA @ The Orpheum Theatre
11/28 – Washington, DC @ The Anthem
11/29 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Met
