Watch official footage of Eddie Vedder covering U2’s One at the Kennedy Center Honors
Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder covered classic single One as a tribute to 2022 Kennedy Center Honorees U2.
A month on from the 45th Kennedy Center Honors, an official, full version of Eddie Vedder’s live performance of One has hit the internet.
The Pearl Jam frontman tackled U2’s classic single – taken from 1991’s Achtung Baby album – as the Irish rock legends were given the lifetime artistic achievement honour for their ‘contributions to American culture’ on December 4.
Of course, as well as his typically excellent rendition which you can watch below, Eddie has (hopefully) been busy working on a new Pearl Jam record – the follow-up to Gigaton. Last month, guitarist and songwriter Stone Gossard revealed that the band have “got demos for days”, with “songs that are getting close to being done” and also “a bunch that aren’t”.
“Everybody writes in the band, so now it’s really just trying to figure out what’s something different for us and what’s something exciting,” he said, while also adding that “it’s gonna be 2024 before the record comes out, is my guess. But we’re working on it.”
Watch this space… and see Eddie perform U2’s One below:
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