Ain’t It Strange

Patti Smith e Bobby Fischer si incontrarono per la prima volta una notte di agosto del 2005. Cantarono e risero per ore, come ha ricordato la stessa Patricia. Venerdì 25 aprile 2008 Patti era Washington per promuovere il film “Patti Smith: Dream of Life” e ha pranzato con Matthew Langley, con il quale ha rievocato i suoi primi anni newyorkesi (quando lavorava come cassiera in una libreria della Grande Mela) e tutte le Very Important Persons da lei incontrate. Bobby Fischer compreso. Dall’Artblog di Matthew Langley ricopiamo:

On Bobby Fischer

This surprised me most. I’m a chess guy (not hardcore – I don’t read about openings and stuff) and never would I have thought Patti would have brought up Bobby Fischer. We were talking about people she had met and he came up kind of randomly – they met toward to end of his life in Iceland. There were serious rules about this meeting as well – only one bodyguard for each of them – Patti laughs – I don’t have a bodyguard – so I brought along a member of the crew. Fischer has crazy about Rock and Roll, Patti says that he told her one of the main reasons that he would play at Washington Square Park was so that he could get money to go see music in the evening – he loved the Four Tops and the Temptations.

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