Patti, Lou and Andy make NYC list but where are the Ramones?

The Museum of the City of New York has named Patti Smith, Lou Reed and Andy Warhol on a list of the Big Apple's Top 400 Most Important People but not one Ramone made the cut.

Great musical figures like Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, John Coltrane made it, as well as Sean "Diddy" Coombs. Hang on a second...

It just goes to show that lists really do suck.

People Remember a Person Who Died

Nice tribute to Jim Carroll. Thanks to Frank McEwen for spotting it.

I guess thus qualifies as a Rock Royal Wedding

Meg White and Jackson Smith are tying the knot.

Patti Smith movie on the festival circuit

Can’t confess to being a fanatic who listens to her every utterance but I have a lot of time for Patti Smith whose attitude and music has earned her an enduring place in rock and roll’s Hall of the Committed.

The Brit punks like Rotten might have given her short shrift but “Horses” was an extraordinary debut and we should never forget the role her sideman Lenny Kaye has played in keeping the Nuggets of ‘60s rock warm. I reckon there’ll be a few people looking forward to seeing a commercial release for a film about her life that’s doing the ro0unds of the festival circuit right now.

Let’s hope it doesn’t suffer the same fate as the MC5 movie, in which her late husband “Sonic” Smith was a leading light.