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<p><b>Lenny Kaye</b> (* <a href="27._Dezember" title="27. Dezember">27. Dezember</a> <a href="1946" title="1946">1946</a> in <a href="New_Brunswick_(New_Jersey)" title="New Brunswick (New Jersey)">New Brunswick</a>, <a href="New_Jersey" title="New Jersey">New Jersey</a>, USA) war von 1975 bis zu ihrer Auflösung 1979 Gitarrist und Komponist der <a href="Patti_Smith" title="Patti Smith">Patti Smith Group</a>.
</p><p>Im Februar 1971 begleitete er <a href="Patti_Smith" title="Patti Smith">Patti Smith</a> bei einer ihrer Lesungen mit der Gitarre. Später wurden sie von Richard Sohl (<a href="Piano" class="mw-redirect" title="Piano">Piano</a>) und von <a href="Ivan_Kr%C3%A1l" title="Ivan Král">Ivan Král</a> (<a href="Gitarre" title="Gitarre">Gitarre</a>) verstärkt und spielten regelmäßig in und um <a href="New_York_City" title="New York City">New York</a>. Er war 1972 als Herausgeber der Schallplatten-<a href="Kompilation_(Musik)" title="Kompilation (Musik)">Kompilation</a> <i><a href="Nuggets%3A_Original_Artyfacts_from_the_First_Psychedelic_Era%2C_1965%E2%80%931968" title="Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965–1968">Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965–1968</a></i> einer der ersten Autoren, die das Wort <i>Punk-Rock</i> benutzten und gilt als einer der Mitbegründer des modernen (<a href="Punk_(Musik)" title="Punk (Musik)">Punk</a>-)<a href="Rock_(Musik)" class="mw-redirect" title="Rock (Musik)">Rocks</a>. Der Autor Steven Lee Beeber, Chronist der jüdischen Wurzeln des New Yorker Punkrocks, bezeichnet Kaye in seiner <a href="Anthologie" title="Anthologie">Anthologie</a> <i>The Heebie-Jeebies at <a href="CBGB" title="CBGB">CBGB</a>’s</i> als den „Schöpfer der <a href="Zehn_Gebote" title="Zehn Gebote">Zehn Gebote</a> des Punk“.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 2010 war er in dem Film <i><a href="Film_Socialisme" title="Film Socialisme">Film Socialisme</a></i> zu sehen.
</p><p>In den 1980er-Jahren hatte er seine eigene Band, die Lenny Kaye Connection. Er produzierte unter anderem die beiden ersten Alben von <a href="Suzanne_Vega" title="Suzanne Vega">Suzanne Vega</a>, sowie den <a href="Kompilation_(Musik)" title="Kompilation (Musik)">Sampler</a> Rubaiyát.
</p><p>Er ist Ko-Autor der Autobiografie von <a href="Waylon_Jennings" title="Waylon Jennings">Waylon Jennings</a>.
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<ul><li>Steven Lee Beeber: <i>The Ten Nuggets – Lenny Kaye and the Compilation of the Ten Punk Commandments</i>. Kapitel in: <i>The Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB’s – A Secret History of Jewish Punk</i> (englisch), S. 63–76. Chicago Review Press, Chicago 2006. ISBN 978-1-55652-761-6.</li></ul>
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.oceanstar.com/patti/bio/kaye.htm">Biografie</a> auf oceanstar.com (englisch)</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.discogs.com/de/artist/Lenny+Kaye">Lenny Kaye</a> bei <a href="Discogs" title="Discogs">Discogs</a></li></ul>
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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>“In</i> Nuggets, <i>Kaye in effect created the Ten Punk Commandments, a template for the genre</i>”. Steven Lee Beeber in: <i>The Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB’s</i>, S. 69.</span>
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Normdaten (Person): <a href="Gemeinsame_Normdatei" title="Gemeinsame Normdatei">GND</a>: <span class="-print"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://d-nb.info/gnd/134621956">134621956</a></span> | <a href="Library_of_Congress_Control_Number" title="Library of Congress Control Number">LCCN</a>: <span class="-print"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://id.loc.gov/authorities/n96005421">n96005421</a></span> | <a href="Web_NDL_Authorities" title="Web NDL Authorities">NDL</a>: <span class="-print"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://id.ndl.go.jp/auth/ndlna/00469348">00469348</a></span> | <a href="Virtual_International_Authority_File" title="Virtual International Authority File">VIAF</a>: <span class="-print"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://viaf.org/viaf/65730198/">65730198</a></span> | </div>
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