Horses (50^th Anniversary) will feature previously unreleased songs, outtakes and rarities

New York, NY – August 22, 2025 – Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, announced today a vinyl and CD release in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Patti Smith’s Horses. The album, originally released in 1975, will be released as a 2-LP and 2-CD on October 10. Pre-order is available now here. 

This release will feature the iconic original album remastered direct from the original 1/4” master tapes, as well as previously unreleased outtakes and rarities, including Patti Smith’s 1975 RCA audition tape.

The release of Horses (50^th Anniversary) will feature eight never-before-released songs, such as “Snowball” and “Birdland (Alternate Take)”, along with RCA demos. “Snowball” (here) will be the first single available on all streaming platforms today.

“The poet may stand alone, but in merging with a band, surrenders to the wonder of teamwork. Thus joined, we birthed Horses together.” – Patti Smith, Bread of Angels

On November 4, Patti Smith will publish her long-awaited memoir, Bread of Angels, via Random House Publishing. In Smith’s most intimate and visionary work, she describes her post-World War II childhood in working class Philadelphia and South Jersey, her teenage years when the first glimmers of art and romance take hold, her rise as punk rock icon to her retreat from public life when she meets her one true love and starts a family on the shores of Lake Saint Clair, Michigan. As Smith suffers profound losses, she also returns to writing, the one constant on a lifelong path driven by artistic freedom and the power of the imagination. 

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Order and Listen Link: https://PattiSmith.lnk.to/Horses50

Horses (50^th Anniversary) Tracklist:

gloria

redondo beach

birdland

free money

kimberly

break it up

land:

horses

land of a thousand dances

la mer (de)

elegie

bonus tracks

gloria*

redondo beach

birdland*

snowball*

kimberly*

break it up*

distant fingers*

the hunter gets captured by the game*

we three*

*previously unreleased

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About Legacy Recordings

Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, is home to the world’s foremost library of historically significant commercial recordings, a peerless collection of works by the most important musical artists of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. Across a variety of platforms, the label offers contemporary music fans access to thousands of meticulously restored archival titles representing virtually every musical genre.