In the post accompanying the show, Lily wrote: “I am honoured to be joined by a guiding light in my life, Eddie Vedder of We discuss societal and political impacts on mental health, Eddie’s own experiences, and the importance of activism and empathy. I’m losing it.’ And he said, ‘No, you can handle this…’ He empowered me to get my shit together” “There I was in a fetal position, basically, and Pete said, ‘You can handle this,’ and I said, ‘I can’t. “And her name was Lily, and we kinda cried some tears of joy… This was I think less than 15 minutes before we were gonna go on.”įollowing the festival tragedy, Vedder credited The Who‘s Pete Townsend and Roger Daltrey with helping him get through it, since The Who had experienced a similar tragedy in Cincinnati in 1979 when a crush led to the death of 11 people. “It’s interesting, Roskilde, where there were issues with weather and the crowd, and a horrific situation where lives were lost in front of the barricade… it’s crazy to talk to you about it, because right before we went on stage… we got the news that our great friends Chris and Susan had just had a child,” Vedder recalled. The Pear Jam rocker also revealed that he had been informed Cornell had welcomed his baby girl into the world just moments before going on stage at for what would become the 1999 Roskilde Festival tragedy, in which nine fans were crushed to death at the music festival. He continued, “I remember our first record because there’s some sad shit on there, and I’m thinking, ‘Wow, this is kind of depressing that tens of millions of people are relating to this.” “These weren’t people going, ‘Oh I’m gonna pretend to write a dark song,'” he continued. Layne ’s lyrics, there were some dark lyrics.” Kurt ’s lyrics, there are some dark lyrics. “Obviously he had the music, and those are some dark lyrics. “Your dad, we talk about music or art as a release or a place where, I think they call it homeostasis, where you can get to that level of just feeling energised and clear of mind,” he reflected to Silver. Speaking of recurring dark themes throughout grunge music lyrics in its heyday, Vedder said: Last, they’ll develop and share best practices and advance research for building a more hopeful future.Congratulations to Ed and the rest of the guys on their HOF induction – so much love to all of you, I could not have five cooler uncles in my life □Ī post shared by Lily Silver on at 7:38pm PDT These funds will help create facilities where young people and their families can connect with each other and with vital resources, support integrated care teams-oncologists, nurses, psychologists, program managers, nurse/patient navigators. Your donation will build and equip youth cancer care units, launch youth-centered care programs, including emotional therapy, fertility counseling, survivorship support, and end-of-life care. We can heal the young people who are tomorrow’s leaders, artists, educators, and innovators. Through Teen Cancer America- founded by The Who’s Roger Daltrey, with the revolutionary spirit of rock-and-roll in its DNA -we can change all that, and change lives in the process. Hospitalized with children and elders, with no age-appropriate social support -they often experience extreme isolation and psychological challenges. Young patients fall into a gap between pediatric and adult oncology. But in most American communities today, there’s no such thing as youth-centered cancer care. Adolescents and young adults are a unique population, with unique needs - especially when they’ve been diagnosed with cancer. We can make sure “You have cancer” isn’t the only message they hear. Every hour, eight more young people in America hear three words that will transform their sense of what’s possible.
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