According to Smith there was no discussion about what the resulting image should look like or what they would do: ‘I had my look in mind. Smith provides an account of this shoot in her autobiography, recalling details such as her choice of clothing and how she and Mapplethorpe waited for the perfect light. The portrait was taken during a session in which Mapplethorpe was shooting the cover image for Patti Smith’s first album Horses (1975). Mapplethorpe chose Wagstaff’s apartment as the location for the shoot as it was large, had white walls and was bathed in natural light. Mapplethorpe was Wagstaff’s lover and protégé until the collector’s death in 1987. Sam Wagstaff was a private art collector and was one of the first to collect photography in the early 1970s before there was a serious market for it. This photograph was taken by Robert Mapplethorpe in 1975 at Sam Wagstaff’s penthouse apartment on Fifth Avenue, New York. Her dark tousled hair frames her face and neck, while her fringe covers her forehead. Her eyes are narrowed very slightly and her mouth is partially open. This raised arm causes the axis of her body to slope diagonally in the same direction as the ribbon she is holding. Her wrist bends delicately towards her face while her fingers form a loose fist. The singer’s right arm is raised and bent at the elbow. This introduces a diagonal to the composition that contrasts with the dark vertical line down the centre of the image where the ribbon falls from Smith’s neck in front of her body towards her waist. Smith tugs one end of the ribbon with her left hand, gripping it with two fingers. A black ribbon with a dulled shine and frayed ends is draped loosely around her neck. A thin chain hangs around her neck, the rest of which is tucked under her shirt, and a thin black band is worn on her right wrist. She wears a loose white shirt which is roughly rolled up at the sleeves, with the top buttons undone. Love you see you really soon x.In this black and white portrait photograph the singer-songwriter Patti Smith is framed from her waist up and stands against a plain white background. ‘New York’ will be finished eventually but is not a song of The 1975.

So when I opened up for Phoebe I kinda wanted to do that old school Greenwich Village folk scene thing where people used to just play songs that were knocking around by other artists,” he explained. “I love the song and it didn’t have a bridge.

He went on to explain that ‘New York’, a song believed to be a new 1975 track that he performed live in Los Angeles while supporting Phoebe Bridgers last year, is actually by Dirty Hit labelmate Benjamin Francis Leftwich. Last week, Healy rejoined Reddit to share new details on the album, telling fans: “Hey guys I’ve just started doing interviews where I explain the record and it’s context.”

The four-piece’s follow-up to ‘Notes On A Conditional Form’ has been the subject of fan speculation for some time, with Healy poking fun at the prospect of “making another ‘classic record’” back in August 2021. The band’s most recent album came in mid-2020 with ‘Notes On A Conditional Form’, and at the start of the 2022, they shared footage which appeared to show the band back at work in the studio.

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