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.”