“This performance goes to everyone, it’s for everyone all over the world,” declares Smith in the video, adding that “2020 has been a Blakean year but I think the glad day is coming.” Here’s hoping. These include Shirley Chisholm, the first black Congresswoman the environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg Vice President-elect Kamala Harris the anti-gun activist Naomi Wadler as well as the Soup Kitchen in Holborn the Emergency Designer Network and many more.
The music video is filmed mostly in black-and-white and features Patti Smith singing, writing and walking. The cover photograph is by Robert Mapplethorpe. Listen to People Have The Power by Patti Smith, 501,916 Shazams, featuring on ’70s Love Song Essentials, and Inspirational Songs Essentials Apple Music playlists. The video also includes Smith's performance of Grateful (2000), and both songs are set against a montage that pays homage to individuals and organisations past and present who have used their voices to create a better future. ' People Have the Power ' is a rock song written by Patti Smith and Fred 'Sonic' Smith, and released as a lead single from Patti Smiths 1988 album Dream of Life.
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The 30-minute presentation combines music with poetry and will be free to watch on the CIRCA YouTube channel at 20:21 GMT/15:21 EST on 20 January. “It’s a beautiful night, we have a new president and vice president and our democracy seems to be quite intact,” she says in the video. Smith and her band specially recorded the new version in New York last week.
The American musician also sent a video message to voters for the opposition. Patti Smith is marking Inauguration Day with a rendition of The People Have the Power, the rousing song she co-wrote with her late husband Fred ‘Sonic’ Smith in 1988. A Hungarian version of Patti Smith’s song called People Have the Power, was used as a campaign song for the opposition at their March 15 celebration.