Patti Smith - Just kids

"It was the summer Coltrane died. The summer Jimi Hendrix set fire to his guitar and China detonated a hydrogen bomb. There was rebellion in Newark and protest marches against the Vietnam War. The world stood on the threshold of a new era. It was the Summer of Love. It was the summer that changed my life. It was the summer I met Robert."

"In the sweltering summer of 1967, Patti Smith leaves her hometown in New Jersey. She drops out of her teacher training and sets off for adventure in New York. She is twenty years old and has grown tired of her hometown's narrow-mindedness. She wants new experiences and room to grow. Above all, she wants to create. In New York, she meets her kindred spirit, Robert Mapplethorpe. The two become a couple and live together for many years. Alongside Robert, Patti is drawn straight into an environment and atmosphere buzzing with creativity and life. Both are inspired to grow, and both will, over time, achieve great fame and revolutionize their art forms: he as a photographer, and she as a musician and poet."

"J"