Into your starry eyes, baby. Patti Smith has been on tour all year, celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of Horses , her classic punk debut, released in November 1975. She brought the show to New York last week, and ripped it up at the Beacon Theater. She was having so much fun, she did “Gloria” three times, which is insane, but it got wilder each go-round. And all three times she held back on the punch line. For the finale, she taunted the crowd: “Jesus died for somebody’s siiiiins …thank you, Jesus!”

She knew the crowd came to see her strut, and she delivered for two nights. Still a dynamite dancer at 79, she came to flaunt the convulsive rock & roll rhythms in her bones — she’s the punk who always said she learned to walk by watching Bob Dylan in Don’t Look Back . She stretched

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