Editing Lenny Kaye (section)

==Career==
[[File:Lenny Kaye-1978.jpg|thumb|Kaye performing with [[Patti Smith]] and her group in [[Germany]] in 1979]]

Kaye's uncle was songwriter [[Larry Kusik]], who wrote lyrics to "[[Romeo and Juliet (1968 film)|A Time For Us]]" and "[[Speak Softly Love]]". Kusik noticed Kaye's lengthening hair and musical commitment, and asked him to sing on a song that he co-wrote with [[Ritchie Adams]] ("You Were Mine").

Kaye recorded "Crazy Like A Fox" and its flip side song, "Shock Me", which were released as a 45, issued under the name of Link Cromwell, and leased to [[Recorded In Hollywood|Hollywood Records]], a division of Starday Records in [[Nashville]]; it was released in March 1966. It garnered a Newcomer Pick of the Week from ''[[Cashbox (magazine)|Cashbox]]'' ("A rhythmic bluesy folk-rocker with a pulsating beat") and was issued in the UK and Australia. Kaye's group at the time, The Zoo, played the college circuit in [[New York (state)|New York]] and [[Pennsylvania]], an experience captured on ''Live 1966'', an album released by [[Norton Records]].<ref name="lennykaye.com"/>

He began writing for ''[[Jazz & Pop]]'' magazine, and later for ''[[Fusion (music magazine)|Fusion]]'', ''[[Crawdaddy (magazine)|Crawdaddy]]'', ''[[Melody Maker]]'', ''[[Creem]]'' and ''[[Rolling Stone]]''.<ref>{{citation |title=Correspondence, Love Letters & Advice |author=Lenny Kaye |publisher=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=June 22, 1968 }}</ref> He became music editor for ''[[Cavalier (magazine)|Cavalier]]'', a men's magazine, where he also wrote a monthly column until 1975. He served as the New York correspondent for ''[[Disc (magazine)|Disc]]'', a British weekly publication. He edited ''Rock Scene'' and ''[[Hit Parader]]''.

While working at a record store on [[Bleecker Street]] in [[Greenwich Village]], Kaye met poet and vocalist [[Patti Smith]]. On February 10, 1971, he backed her at a reading at St. Mark's Church on East 10th Street, opening for [[Gerard Malanga]]. They resumed performing in November 1973, and Kaye produced Smith's debut single, "Hey Joe/Piss Factory", and performed as part of her group throughout the 1970s, contributing to four of Smith's albums: ''[[Horses (album)|Horses]]'' (1975), ''[[Radio Ethiopia]]'' (1976), ''[[Easter (Patti Smith Group album)|Easter]]'' (1978), and ''[[Wave (Patti Smith Group album)|Wave]]'' (1979).

Kaye authored a 1972 anthology of [[garage rock]] during the 1960s, ''[[Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965–1968]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/nuggets-original-artyfacts-from-the-first-psychedelic-era-1965-1968-mw0000599845|title=Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968 - Various Artists &#124; Songs, Reviews, Credits &#124; AllMusic|website=[[AllMusic]] }}</ref> With David Dalton, he co-authored the book ''Rock 100'', a 1977 overview of leading rock stars from the 1950s into the 1970s.

Following the Patti Smith Group's final performance, for the time being, in September 1979, Kaye joined [[Jim Carroll]] and his band and fronted his own group, Lenny Kaye Connection. Over the years he has worked in studio capacities with Carroll,  [[R.E.M.]], [[James (band)|James]], [[Soul Asylum]], [[Kristin Hersh]], and [[Allen Ginsberg]]. He coproduced [[Suzanne Vega]]'s first two albums and her 1987 hit single, "[[Luka (song)|Luka]]", which was nominated for a [[Grammy Awards|Grammy]] as "Record of the Year". 

In 1995, he reunited with Patti Smith and has been a part of her band since, creating six studio albums, a retrospective, and celebrating the 30th anniversary of their debut album, ''Horses''.<ref name="lennykaye.com"/>

He has been nominated three times for Grammy Awards in the liner notes category for boxed sets on the 1960s folk revival of [[Bleecker & MacDougal]], the white blues band Crossroads, and the progressive rock band Elektrock. His book ''You Call It Madness: The Sensuous Song of the Croon'', about the romantic singers of the 1930s, was published in 2004.

In 2010, Kaye contributed a solo recording for ''Daddy Rockin' Strong: A Tribute to Nolan Strong and the Diablos'', released by The Wind/[[Norton Records]]. Kaye recorded a version of "I Wanna Know", a 1950s rhythm and blues ballad. He appeared on and wrote one song for [[The Fleshtones]] 2011 album ''Brooklyn Sound Solution'', released by [[Yep Roc]]. He appeared on the [[R.E.M.]] songs "Alligator Aviator Autopilot Antimatter" and "Blue", which appear on the band's 2011 album ''[[Collapse into Now]]''.

In mid-February 2018, Kaye took over the night shift on [[Underground Garage]], replacing [[Richard Manitoba]].{{citation needed|date=September 2018}}