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"   Less than a month after Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend rocked the Super Bowl halftime show, a roster of A-list artists gathered at Carnegie Hall last night for a tribute to the legendary band. The lineup ran the gamut from venerated acts like soul songstress Bettye Lavette to up-and-comers like Manhattan quartet The Postelles (who offered a pitch-perfect rendition of The Who&amp;#039;s Kinks-esque 1965 single &amp;quot;I Can&amp;#039;t Explain&amp;quot;), and represented a wide range of genres, from the &amp;quot;William Faulkner of Jazz&amp;quot; Mose Allison&amp;#039;s rendition of &amp;quot;Young Man Blues&amp;quot; to funk-metal outfit Living Colour&amp;#039;s version of &amp;quot;Eminence Front.&amp;quot;  At the end of the 20 songs on the bill, surprise guest Patti Smith emerged, prefacing her performance with the words, &amp;quot;Carnegie Hall, I apologize for what I&amp;#039;m about to do.&amp;quot; The punk icon (who we also caught at last week&amp;#039;s Tibet House concert) then launched into a furious rendition of &amp;quot;My Generation&amp;quot; (earlier in the evening, Bobby McFerrin did a stripped-down a cappella interpretation of the hit).  Proceeds from the show benefitted several charities, including Music Unites, whose five-month-old youth choir, comprised of students from NYC&amp;#039;s five boroughs, kicked off the program with a rousing arrangement of the Tommy Overture. I chatted with MU founder Michelle Edgar, who told me that the choir&amp;#039;s colorful T-shirts, which picture the band&amp;#039;s bullseye logo and a pinball machine in honor of the beloved Tommy track &amp;quot;Pinball Wizard,&amp;quot; were designed by none other than David Arquette, who runs the clothing line Propr with Ben Harper. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s important to remember the legends, whether it&amp;#039;s classical or rock, because that&amp;#039;s where it all began,&amp;quot; Edgar said of her musically minded organization&amp;#039;s participation in the showcase. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s amazing to see artists of all different backgrounds coming together tonight. It doesn&amp;#039;t matter how old or how young you are, if you&amp;#039;re a breaking artist or a legend like Patti; the message really resonates with everyone.&amp;quot;  \u2014Erin Clements   The entire ensemble closes the show with &amp;quot;Won&amp;#039;t Get Fooled Again.&amp;quot;     The Music Unites Choir members model their David Arquette-designed T-shirts. Photos: Getty Images (top); courtesy of Music Unites (bottom) "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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