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Watch Pearl Jam Perform ‘Hunger Strike’ for the First Time Since Chris Cornell’s Death

Pearl Jam broke out 'Hunger Strike' at the final show of their 2024 world tour. They hadn't played it since Chris Cornell's death.

“We’d like to have you use them with us now.” The band then kicked into the 1991 Temple of the Dog classic “Hunger Strike,” which they last played on October 26, 2014, at Neil Young’s Bridge School Benefit in Mountain View, California. In the aftermath of Cornell’s tragic death in 2017, it was easy to imagine Pearl Jam simply leaving that song off to the side even though they’d played it with many guest singers over the years, including Wolfmother’s Andrew Stockdale, Sleater-Kinney’s Corin Tucker, and Band of Horses’ Ben Bridwell. He only had a single verse at that point, but a new singer from San Diego named Eddie had just come up to Seattle to form a new band with Wood’s former Mother Love Bone bandmates.

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