rumours all ova the place, was mic broken or was she just too hammered to perform, I dunno I was too far back, I could only see the screens, whatever the truth, when she kicked in vocaly(with Stipe whispering in her ear the whole time, and squeezing her hand) she was awesome, its Patti Smith for fucks sake, even the lowly french gave her a major honour in last month, check out her "horses" album. she a legend, big up Patti for turning up on last minute of belated last night of tour.