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Pearl Jam "Jeremy"
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Richardson High School shooting, January 8, 1991
Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder wrote "Jeremy" in response to the suicide of 15-year-old Jeremy Delle; a sophomore at Richardson High School, who sadly shot himself in front of his teacher and classmates. The situation was actually similar to that of something Vedder indirectly experienced, when a student from his middle school also brought a gun to class.
