Musicians and actors, including Bruce Springsteen, Michael Stipe and Scarlett Johansson, took the stage in tribute.

Patti Smith, the poet-laureate of punk, was honored during a sold-out event at New York's Carnegie Hall on Wednesday night with help from an all-star cast of friends and supporters. The celebration

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,