Easter is a 1978 album by The Patti Smith Group. Produced by Jimmy Iovine, it is regarded as the most commercial of their albums, owing to the success of the song "Because the Night" (co-written by Smith and Bruce Springsteen), which reached #13 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Patti Smith (born December 30, 1946) is an American musician, singer, and poet. She came to prominence during the punk movement with her 1975 debut album Horses. Called "punk rock's poet laureate", she brought a feminist and intellectual take to punk music and became one of rock and roll's most influential female musicians.