Uncut
Music of the spheres
Fifty years on, PATTI SMITH ’ s visionary debut Horses has lost none of its defiance and power. Here, Smith’s long-serving lieutenant LENNY KAYE recalls her emergence as the noble warrior poet of rock’n’roll, and the making of this incantatory album – tracing its creative arc from St Mark’s Church to a rehearsal room in Times Square, the stage at CBGB and, finally, the hallowed confines of Electric Lady Studio A. “We kept pushing it further out there,” he tells Nick Hasted