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Patti Smith's 'Easter' LP Upset Record Label

August 28th, 2008 11:54am EDT  Post a comment    Add to My News

Patti SmithPunk icon Patti Smith's 1978 album Easter was almost banned from record stores because her own record company staffers hated the artwork and the track listing. The defiant "Because The Night" singer refused to bow to company pressure about the song Rock N Roll N---er or the sight of armpit hair on the cover.

She says, "The rack-jobbers didn't want to stock the album because you could see my armpit hair on the cover and then the back cover had the title Rock N Roll N---er. I was warned if I didn't airbrush the hair and retitle the song, the album wouldn't sell... I was never interested in compromise. Changing Easter was never an issue for me."

The album became Smith's biggest seller.

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