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December 12, 2016

Patti Smith Accepts Nobel Prize for Literature on Behalf of Bob Dylan
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And the Nobel Committee presented prizes for medicine, economics,
physics, chemistry and literature in a gala ceremony in Stockholm,
Sweden. Notably absent was Bob Dylan, winner of this year's Nobel Prize
in Literature. Accepting the award on Dylan's behalf was legendary
singer, poet and author Patti Smith, who performed "A Hard Rain's
a-Gonna Fall."

Patti Smith: "It's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a
hard rain's a-gonna fall."



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