Patti ♥ Frank

Today on Fresh Air Terry Gross ran an interview with Patti Smith in which they discussed Robert Mapplethorpe's photograph of Smith for her first album, Horses.

Telling the story of how that photo came to be, Smith said those were her usual everyday clothes but the pose with the jacket slung over her shoulder was -- wow! -- in tribute to Frank Sinatra in the last scene of The Joker Is Wild. (Also: NYT review)