The Pearl Jam frontman is in London for Sunday's all-star Teenage Cancer Trust event with Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, Robert Plant and Paul Weller
The Who performed with the Heart of England Orchestra at London's Royal Albert Hall on Wednesday night, and surprise guest Eddie Vedder came near the end to join them on Tetraphenia classic 'The Punk and the Godfather'.
The performance was part of a week-long series of events at the Royal Albert Hall to raise money for the Teenage Cancer Trust. The Who frontman Roger Daltrey has curated the concert series since 2000, but is stepping down this year. “The £32m raised from these gigs has been the foundation for the NHS's 28 specialist units,” Daltrey said in a statement, “as well as the specialist nurses and youth workers to be there for a new person when the cancer has turned. world upside down.”
The final Teenage Cancer Trust concert of the year takes place on Sunday night. It's a big celebration of Daltrey's work for the charity where the singer will be joined by Pete Townshend, Eddie Vedder, Paul Weller, Robert Plant and Kelly Jones of Stereophonics.
Vedder has joined the Who at many Teenage Cancer Trust shows over the past two decades. It's one of his favorite bands. “I was about nine when a babysitter secretly Who is next on the record player,” Vender said Rolling rock in 2004. “The parents were gone. The windows were shaking. The shelves were creaking. Rock and roll. This began an exploration into music that had soul, rebellion, aggression, affection. Destruction. And that was all the Who's music. There was the period of peak R&B in the mid-'60s: mini operas, Woodstock, solo records. Imagine, as a child, stumbling upon the locomotive that is Live in Leeds. “Hi, my name is Eddie. I'm ten years old and it's driving me crazy!''
Pearl Jam kicks off a world tour on May 4th in Vancouver, Canada. Two days later, Daltrey embarks on a solo tour where he will play Who hits and deep cuts along with selections from his solo catalog. There will also be a part of the show where he will take questions from the audience. The Who have no extra shows on the books and this latest Teenage Cancer Trust show marked the end of a five-year run where they played with local orchestras.
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