She founded the "Patti Smith Group" with whom she released a ... written with Bruce Springsteen (another child from New Jersey still unknown at the time): "Because The Night".

Patti Smith just announced she’s embarking on ... celebrate the final ride of our irreverent thoroughbred,” the New Jersey native and ’70s New York icon shared in a press release.

NME previously listed ‘Horses’ as the 12th greatest album of all time, writing: “A scrawny girl from New Jersey with a truckers’ accent, Patti Smith was a punk poet like no other.