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Patti Smith + Massive Attack
Hyde Park, London W2
5/5
PATTI SMITH reclaimed the British Summertime festival for the dissenters, revolutionaries, the glorious dead and the stuck-in-a-groove living, with her poetic outpourings lifting the spirits as only they can.
As a prelude, Allen Ginsberg’s poem Howl pierces the air as a hallowed cry for humanity and Smith’s subsequent set is a wonder to behold.
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