Patti Smith needed two attempts to get through Bob Dylan's A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall at the Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm.
The American singer-songwriter forgot the lyrics in the second verse and had to pause to regain her composure on Saturday.
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2016 Nobel Prize winners awarded in Sweden
This year's Nobel Prize winners in the field of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and economics receive their awards at a royal ceremony in Stockholm.
She was there to perform in Dylan's place after he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.
His speech was read out by the US Ambassador to Sweden Azita Raji.
"I apologise. I'm sorry, I'm so nervous," Smith said, asking the orchestra to start over.
The audience in Stockholm's Concert Hall, many dressed in formal attire, clapped to support Smith as she tried anew.
She appeared to draw a blank again in the third verse, but only briefly, and finished the song with an emotional performance that left some in the crowd misty-eyed.
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