Patti Smith will take over London’s Piccadilly Circus billboards on New Year’s Eve as part of a virtual performance.The punk icon and her band will ring in 2021 with a show at midnight which will be streamed around the world on the YouTube channel of digital art platform Circa.Smith will pay tribute to the NHS and healthcare workers who have died from COVID-19 in 2020.“It’s just so sad when we lose people who work so hard to rebuild our world,” she told The Guardian.She will also read a new poem dedicated to the environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg, who will turn 18 in January.Speaking ahead of the show Smith said: “Some of the work I did in my bedroom, some in a recording studio and some at my desk.“I had to teach myself how to use.
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