Watch Bruce Springsteen, Flea, Karen O and more jam with Patti Smith at all-star tribute gig

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Bruce Springsteen, Flea, Karen O, Michael Stipe, Johnny Depp and more have led an all-star jam with Patti Smith at her tribute concert in New York – check out footage from the show below.Last night (March 26), New York’s famed Carnegie Hall hosted the People Have the Power: A Celebration of Patti Smith tribute concert, featuring a star-studded line-up of musicians paying homage to the legendary Patti Smith.People Have The Power: A Celebration of Patti Smith is a Music Of benefit concert that will donate 100 per cent of its net proceeds to music education for underserved youth.At the show, Bruce Springsteen and the night’s house band led by Tony Shanahan, a longtime member of Smith’s band, along with Flea and Rolling Stones tour drummer Steve Jordan, performed a rendition of ‘Because The Night’ – which you can watch footage of below.A star-studded line-up took to Carnegie Hall for a celebration of Patti Smith on Wednesday night – here’s Bruce Springsteen (@springsteen) and @flea333 performing ‘Because The Night’ pic.twitter.com/7fBrVRHEc1— NME (@NME) March 27, 2025Elsewhere during the gig, the likes of Matt Berninger, Kim Gordon, Michael Stipe and more performed, while other A-listers such as Scarlett Johansson, Michael Shannon, Jim Jarmusch and Sean Penn made appearances to read Patti’s poetry.

Karen O also performed a cover of Smith’s 1975 classic ‘Gloria’.Another huge name who performed but was not announced for the show was actor-musician Johnny Depp, who joined Flea and The Kills‘ Alison Mosshart for ‘Dancing Barefoot’.