Lenny Kaye
Kaye in March 2007
Background information
Also known as	Lenny Kaye Connection
Born	December 27, 1946 (1946-12-27) (age 61)
Origin	New York City, New York, U.S.
Genre(s)	Rock, protopunk
Occupation(s)	Guitarist, songwriter, record producer, music journalist
Instrument(s)	Guitar, vocals
Years active	1974–present
Label(s)	Giorno Poetry Systems, Arista, Columbia
Associated acts	Patti Smith
Website	LennyKay.com

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Early life

Kaye was born in Manhattan, New York City,^[2] and grew up in Queens and Brooklyn, before moving to North Brunswick Township, New Jersey when he was a teenager. Manhattan Island, in New York Harbor, is much the largest part of the Borough of Manhattan, one of the Five Boroughs which form the City of New York The City of New York Brooklyn (named after the Dutch town Breukelen) is one of the five boroughs of New York City. North Brunswick Township is a Township in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States. There he formed his first bands, The Vandals, and later The Zoo, and recorded a folk-protest song called "Crazy Like a Fox" in 1966, under the name of Link Cromwell.

Career

Kaye has been Patti Smith's most frequent collaborator since 1971, when they performed their first poetry reading together; He played lead guitar on all of the Patti Smith Group's albums, and on many of Smith's solo releases. Patricia Lee Smith ( born December 30 1946 is an American Singer-songwriter and poet Lead guitar refers to the use of a Guitar to perform Melody lines instrumental fill passages, and Guitar solos within a song structure He wrote the liner notes and assembled the tracks for Nuggets (1972), which included one of the first uses of the term "Punk rock". For a bibliographic format for citing liner notes see WikipediaCiting sources/example style Liner notes (also sleeve notes or album notes

In the 1980s, he had his own band, Lenny Kaye Connection, which released an album I've Got A Right. A successful producer, he helmed the first two albums by Suzanne Vega and the first solo effort by Kristin Hersh of Throwing Muses (the album Hips and Makers), among many others. Suzanne Nadine Vega (born 11 July 1959 in Santa Monica, California) is an American Songwriter and Singer Kristin Hersh (born August 7, 1966) is an American singer/songwriter who performs solo acoustic concerts she also has performed as lead singer and guitarist Throwing Muses are an Alternative rock band formed in 1981 in Newport Rhode Island, that toured and recorded extensively until 1997 when its members began concentrating Hips and Makers is the debut solo Album by Kristin Hersh, best known as the primary singer and songwriter of the band Throwing Muses. Other artists he has worked with are Soul Asylum (Hang Time), Allen Ginsberg ("Ballad of the Skeletons"), The Weather Prophets (Mayflower), James (Stutter), and Cindy Lee Berryhill (Naked Movie Star). Soul Asylum is an American Alternative rock band that formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1983. Hang Time is a 1988 album from the band Soul Asylum. Released on A&M Records, it was the band's major-label debut Irwin Allen Ginsberg (ˈgɪnzbɝg (June 3 1926 &ndash April 5 1997 was an American Poet. The Weather Prophets were a British indie band famed for being part of the C86 movement James are an English rock band from Manchester. They formed in 1981 and were active throughout the 80s but most successful during the 90s Stutter was the debut album from English band James, released in June 1986

His books include Waylon Jennings' autobiography Waylon: An Autobiography, which he co-authored with Jennings. Waylon Arnold Jennings ( June 15, 1937 &ndash February 13, 2002) was an influential American Country music Singer His most recent book is You Call It Madness, based on the life of the 1930s crooner Russ Columbo, published in 2004 by Random House. Ruggiero Eugenio di Rodolpho Colombo ( January 14 1908 &ndash September 2 1934) better known as Russ Columbo, was an American Random House Inc is the world's largest English-language general trade book publisher He has been nominated three times for Grammy Award for Best Album Notes for boxed sets on the Bleecker & MacDougal, Crossroads and Elektrock. The Grammy Award for Best Album Notes has been presented since 1964 ^[2]

Discography

• I've Got a Right (1984)

Further information: Patti Smith discography

See also

• List of guitarists

Notes

External links

• Official website
• Lenny Kaye at MySpace
• Lenny Kaye at Allmusic
• Lenny Kaye at the Internet Movie Database