RCA UK co-president Stacey Tang will oversee all aspects of the BRIT Awards' direction as it moves to Manchester, plus more music industry moves.

This article appears in the December 2025 print edition with the headline “Patti Smith’s Lifetime of Reinvention.” ...

Patti Smith, the celebrated rock poet who won a National Book Award for ‘Just Kids,’ revisits her hard-scrabble childhood, success and the loss of her husband, Fred Sonic Smith, in 'Bread of Angels.' ...

For much of the world, he had us at “Jerry Maguire,” or his “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” script, or “…Say Anything.” But ...