CBGBS 1979 BNPL Excluded Beastwars and Blood Becomes Fire

Beastwars and Blood Becomes Fire were also nominated for the Taite Music Prize

Originally intended as an orchestral piece inspired by the landscapes of Iceland

The single won an international Human Rights Achievement Award (the first time ever awarded for a song)

Danny Torrance is a middle-aged man drifting through America in order to shed his father's alcoholism

CBGBS 1979 BNPL Excluded Beastwars and Blood Becomes FireFew women in music have had as enormous an impact and influence as Patti Smith. The first of the art punk poets, Smith burst onto the early New York punk scene in 1975 with a series of "music poetry happenings" staged at the legendary CBGB club between 1974 and 1976. A former college dropout who moved to Greenwich Village in the late 1960s, where she developed her skills as a beat poet, Patti Smith eventually discovered that the energetic punk scene