" Jeremy " is a song by American rock band Pearl Jam, with lyrics written by vocalist Eddie Vedder and music composed by bassist Jeff Ament. "Jeremy" was released in August 1992 as the third single from Pearl Jam's debut album, Ten (1991).
Originally released in 1992, the Jeremy video brought attention to gun violence, teen suicide, and violence in schools. The original uncensored video, previously unreleased, is being shown here...
The song takes its main inspiration from a newspaper article about a 15-year-old boy named Jeremy Wade Delle from Richardson, Texas who killed himself in front of his English classmates at...
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Music The controversial story of ‘Jeremy’, the song that Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam) composed after seeing a tragic newspaper clipping
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Pearl Jam "Jeremy": At home drawing pictures of mountain tops With him on top, lemon yellow sun Arms raised in a "V" And...
“Jeremy” by Pearl Jam is one of the band’s most unsettling and emotional songs. The song’s meaning centers on a real-life tragedy: a teenage boy who took his own life in front of his classmates. Eddie Vedder wrote the lyrics after reading about the story in a newspaper.
It is based on the true story of Jeremy Delle, a 15-year-old sophomore who killed himself in front of his English class at Richardson High School in Richardson, Texas, on .