The 2015 Global Citizen festival, staged on Central Park's Great Lawn in New York on September 26 that year, was a star-studded affair, with Pearl Jam, Coldplay, Fall Out Boy, Beyoncé and Ed Sheeran joined by guest speakers including actors Hugh Jackman and Leonardo DiCaprio, US First Lady Michelle Obama and Vice-President (now POTUSA) Joe Biden for the MSNBC TV broadcast.
In the spirit of the event, a free-ticketed charity fundraiser seeking to eradicate extreme poverty throughout the world, the festival featured a number of unique, one-off collaborations, such as pop star Ariana Grande joining Coldplay to sing Just a Little Bit of Your Heart (co-written by Harry Styles), and Coldplay's Chris Martin duetting with Ed Sheeran on Thinking Out Loud, a song which has now been streamed an unfathomable 2.446 BILLION times on Spotify alone.
The concert's high-point, however, was Pearl Jam's hour-long, 12-song headline set, which spanned their entire career to that point, from their 1991 debut Ten (from which the Seattle quintet played Alive) through to their tenth record, Lightning Bolt (from which the title track and album opener Mind Your Manners) were performed.
