RE: Because The Night - Origin Explained - By Patti Herself!

["Paul Perner" <ravensdawn>]

> [Original Message]
> From: <AskDaveLTC>
>
> To those who recently wondered about the origin of Because The Night and
what
> did Bruce create and what  did Patti Smith create, here's what I
sent..........


Thank you. That hits very nail in the pail and definitely
shuts me and my criticisms about "Because the Night" up
for the rest of my natural life. 

Some of the reaction to it was that in that year, if you
flew the punk flag, your heroes weren't supposed to have
commercial hits. B the N was a good, solid, beautiful song
and the Patti wagon needed a new wheel to keep things
rolling after Radio Ethiopia (I speak purely from my own
conjectures) didn't fly out of the bins.... even though it's
an artistic gem and one of my all time faves.

I find it interesting that Bruce created the melody 
without words first.

Paul