One of the anomalies about Pearl Jam and Neil Young's collaborative album Mirror Ball is that Eddie Vedder hardly features on it. Bar a cameo on the epic rocker Peace And Love, Vedder is absent from the record that saw the grunge giants team up with their hero. His lack of presence during the sessions was down to his reluctance to leave his home at the time owing to what he described as a “pretty intense stalker problem.”
But when Vedder did show towards the end of the sessions, he immediately got on board with the creative momentum his bandmates and Young had fostered. Straight away, he helped Young finish the lyrics to Peace And Love, writing the words to the track’s cascading middle-eight, and his elder encouraged him to go one better.
