Patti Smith Group Live in Zurich, October 1976 is a book that brings together the unpublished photos by Eric Bachmann, Francois Bitzi and Roland Stucky which captured the PSG's performance at the Rote Fabrik in Zurich on 12/1076, an event brought to a premature end by a mysterious tear gas attack.
A bootleg recording from that evening is the starting point for Dominik Bachmann's research and this photo book which also makes available for the first time an interview that Smith gave to Swiss television. The numerous finds are supplemented by historical documents, newspaper articles and texts by Bice Curiger, Veit Stauffer, Peter K. Wehrli and Suzanne Zahnd complement the historical finds.
Everyedition, 160pp, 15cm x 23cm, illustrated paperback, English and German text, 2025