Jackson Smith

Patti Smith Group’s previous album, Radio Ethiopia was influenced by the fiery 1960’s Detroit band MC5; and Patti Smith later met the band’s guitarist Fred “Sonic” Smith.  They married in 1980, and the couple raised two children.  The joke at the time was that she married him only because she wouldn’t have to change her name.  Their son, Jackson Smith married White Stripes drummer Meg White in 2009; interestingly, Meg didn’t have to change her name either when she had previously married the band’s guitarist Jack White. 

(February 2014)