Profile
Victor Bockris
Victor Bockris is the foremost chronicler of the New York Underground. In 1972, he published Patti Smith’s first book of poems ‘Seventh Heaven’ at ‘Telegraph Books’. He is the acclaimed biographer of Muhammad Ali, Blondie, The Velvet Underground, Keith Richards, Lou Reed and is the author of ‘With William Burroughs’ (1997) and ‘The Life and Death of Andy Warhol’ (1998).
PATTI SMITH
Patti Smith was a poet, a punk prophet, a feminist icon, a living work of art and the first woman rock-outsider to come from the New York underground and become a star.
Publication date: UK 1st Jul 2008
