The music video is filmed mostly in black-and-white and features Patti Smith singing, writing and walking.

[citation needed] In 2019, Smith performed the song with 250 volunteer singers at The Public Theater.

[2] For most of U2's 2015 Innocence + Experience Tour, the group used "People Have the Power" as their entrance music.

On December 7, to close their show and the tour at Accorhotels Arena, U2 invited Eagles of Death Metal on-stage to perform the song with them.

It was Eagles of Death Metal's first public performance since the attack on their 13 November 2015 concert at the Bataclan in Paris that resulted in 89 fatalities.