| "Rock N Roll Nigger" | |||||||||
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| Song by Patti Smith from the album Easter | |||||||||
| Released | March 3, 1978 | ||||||||
| Recorded | Record Plant Studios | ||||||||
| Genre | Punk rock | ||||||||
| Length | 3:13 | ||||||||
| Label | Arista | ||||||||
| Writer | Patti Smith, Lenny Kaye | ||||||||
| Producer | Jimmy Iovine | ||||||||
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"Rock N Roll Nigger" is a rock song written by Patti Smith and Lenny Kaye, and released on the Patti Smith Group's 1978 album Easter. The song has since been covered by several artists, and was included on the soundtrack of the 1994 film Natural Born Killers.
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The following is quoted from the album:
U2 lead singer Bono references the song during an interlude in their performance of "Bullet the Blue Sky" on the Elevation 2001: U2 Live from Boston DVD. Marilyn Manson released a cover on the Smells Like Children remix album. Manson cut out both the spoken word "Babelogue" track (which is often performed together with "Rock N Roll Nigger" as one work) and the poem which is interspersed in the song:
Punk bands Anti-Heros, Birdland and Toe to Toe also covered the song.
In 2008, the song was listed in The Pitchfork 500, a music guide published by Pitchfork Media that lists the top 500 songs between 1977 and 2006.[1]
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