{"id":29689,"date":"2024-06-07T21:04:27","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T21:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/patti-smith-late-husband-fred-sonic-smith-receive-detroit-honor\/"},"modified":"2024-06-07T21:04:27","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T21:04:27","slug":"patti-smith-late-husband-fred-sonic-smith-receive-detroit-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/patti-smith-late-husband-fred-sonic-smith-receive-detroit-honor\/","title":{"rendered":"Patti Smith &amp; late husband Fred \u201cSonic\u201d Smith receive Detroit honor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-06-07\/Getty_PattiSmith_060724.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Noam Galai\/Getty Images for The Gordon Parks Foundation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Patti Smith<\/strong> was in Detroit Thursday to accept a special honor.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">According to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/brian-mccollum\/2024\/06\/06\/jack-white-patti-smith-slum-village-honored-at-michigan-central-event\/74005555007\/?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Detroit Free Press<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a><span class=\"s1\">, Smith and her late husband,\u00a0<strong>MC5<\/strong>\u00a0guitarist <strong>Fred \u201cSonic\u201d Smith<\/strong>, were honored for being ambassadors for Detroit, along with <strong>Jack White<\/strong> and <strong>Slum Village<\/strong>. They all received pieces of marble from Michigan Central Station at a ceremony held ahead of the all-star concert,\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Live From Detroit: The Concert at Michigan Central,<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> which celebrated the refurbishment and reopening of the historic train station.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cFred loved the train station, and he would fantasize about it being restored and opened to the people. He really talked about it quite a bit, so I know that this would have made him very happy,\u201d Smith told <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/concerts\/eminem-collab-jelly-roll-debut-houdini-michigan-central-station-re-opening-highlights-1235703471\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Billboard<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a><span class=\"s1\">. \u201cIt means something to me that they\u2019re honoring him, as he should be, and I\u2019m happy to be included with him.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cSome of the greatest and most important parts of my life have been in your great city,\u201d Smith shared during her speech, which also\u00a0had her reading aloud <strong>Eminem<\/strong>\u2019s 2009 poem \u201cLetter to Detroit.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Live From Detroit: The Concert at Michigan Central<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> featured performances by White, Eminem,<strong> Melissa Etheridge<\/strong>,<strong>\u00a0Diana Ross<\/strong> and more. It streamed live on Peacock, and a one-hour special will air Sunday on NBC at 7 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noam Galai\/Getty Images for The Gordon Parks Foundation Patti Smith was in Detroit Thursday to accept a special honor.\u00a0 According to the Detroit Free Press, Smith and her late husband,\u00a0MC5\u00a0guitarist Fred \u201cSonic\u201d Smith, were honored for being ambassadors for Detroit, along with Jack White and Slum Village. They all received<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/patti-smith-late-husband-fred-sonic-smith-receive-detroit-honor\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}