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"Patti Smith has described her upcoming song for late singer Amy Winehouse as &amp;quot;a little gift&amp;quot;. &amp;#039;This Is The Girl&amp;#039; features on Smith&amp;#039;s upcoming album Banga, the follow-up to 2007&amp;#039;s Twelve and her first album of newly-written material since 2004&amp;#039;s Trampin&amp;#039;   Smith told Lauren Laverne on BBC 6 Music that the writing for the album was &amp;quot;stretched within a couple of years&amp;quot; and that some tracks &amp;quot;come in right along the wire that you didn&amp;#039;t expect&amp;quot;. &amp;quot;The last little song was a little gift - a song for Amy Winehouse that I didn&amp;#039;t expect to write,&amp;quot; she said.  &amp;quot;It just came with a little poem I wrote that went beautiful with a piece of music my bass player [Tony Shanahan] wrote.&amp;quot; She added: &amp;quot;[The album was] already finished but it just came along. It&amp;#039;s a song I wish I never had to write. I would rather she was still here.&amp;quot; Smith confirmed that Johnny Depp &amp;quot;plays some guitar&amp;quot; on the record, while Television&amp;#039;s Tom Verlaine appears on two tracks. &amp;quot;He&amp;#039;s a kindred spirit in terms of aesthetics and writing and the books that we read,&amp;quot; she said of Verlaine.  &amp;quot;But when it comes to his guitar playing he&amp;#039;s beyond anyone I know - but we have such a nice alchemy. &amp;quot;When I&amp;#039;m singing and he plays with me he is able to articulate words through his guitar phrasing. I&amp;#039;ve never known anyone who could do it like Tom Verlaine.&amp;quot; Last September, Smith released the career-spanning greatest hits compilation Outside Society. Smith won the 2010 National Book Award in the non-fiction category for her memoir Just Kids, which explores her friendship with late photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. &amp;gt; Patrick Wolf &amp;#039;moved to tears&amp;#039; by new Patti Smith album Listen to new Patti Smith single &amp;#039;April Fool&amp;#039; below      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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