Springsteen performed "Because the Night" with Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tony Shanahan, and Steve Jordan from the Rolling Stones.

Appropriately enough, Wednesday night's benefit tribute concert at New York's Carnegie Hall in honor of pioneering musician, author and icon Patti Smith began with a poem. Not just any poem: It was the first one she set to music,

Watch Bruce Springsteen lean an all-star band in an unforgettable cover of "Because the Night" to honor Patti Smith.