Eddie Vedder joins The Who on stage at in London
Eddie Vedder joined The Who on stage in the course of the band’s Teenage Cancer Trust present in London final evening (March 20) – try the footage beneath.
The group performed their second orchestral present of the week on the historic Royal Albert Corridor after kicking off the 2024 TCT live performance sequence on Monday (March 18).
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To start the third and last a part of yesterday’s gig, frontman Roger Daltrey launched Pearl Jam‘s Vedder to hitch The Who on a collaborative rendition of ‘The Punk And The Godfather’ from their 1973 album ‘Quadrophenia’.
Daltrey and Vedder traded strains all through the energetic efficiency earlier than embracing within the closing moments. Watch a fan-shot video right here:
The Who and Vedder have teamed up quite a few instances beforehand, together with at a non-public most cancers profit present in Los Angeles in 2022 and a charity occasion in Chicago in 2015.
Moreover, Vedder joined The Who on stage at their inaugural Teenage Most cancers Belief live performance on the Royal Albert Corridor in 2000, and guested with the group at Wembley Stadium in 2019 (additionally on ‘The Punk And The Godfather’).
This Sunday (March 24), Vedder will take part in a particular closing evening occasion for the 2024 TCT gig sequence, dubbed ‘Ovation’. It’s billed as “a celebration of 24 years of gigs for Teenage Most cancers Belief”. Additionally showing on the present might be Daltrey, Kelly Jones, Robert Plant with Saving Grace and Paul Weller.
Daltrey is stepping down because the curator for the Teenager Most cancers Belief live performance sequence this 12 months after greater than 20 years. Since its initiation in 2000, the sequence has raised over £32million to assist these battling most cancers.
Chatting with NME in March 2023, Daltrey talked about how TCT had funded 29 age-specific specialist models in NHS hospitals throughout the UK. “We’ve performed remarkably properly, however it’s to not say we are able to’t do higher,” he defined.
The singer will proceed as an Honorary Patron of the charity, regardless of stepping down as curator of its annual live performance sequence.
This 12 months’s run of exhibits will proceed tonight (March 21) with performances from Noel Gallagher’s Excessive Flying Birds and Blossoms forward of a Younger Fathers gig tomorrow (22) and a Chemical Brothers live performance on Saturday (23).
You’ll be able to see the complete line-up for the sequence and discover ticket particulars right here.