Pearl Jam's 20th Anniversary: Jeremy Spoke In Class Today

The celebration of Pearl Jam's 20th anniversary continues here at TMIAJ and will do so throughout the year.  This week marks 20 years of a horrible tragedy in which a young man took his own life in front of his classroom in Richardson, Texas.  Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder read about this in a newspaper and was inspired to write what would become a Pearl Jam classic, the song "Jeremy".  The music video for the song went on to critical acclaim and won many awards.  It also caused controversy due to the ending of the video where the kid is shown with the gun in his mouth. “We did five different versions [of the ending],” director Mark Pellington has said. “One where the kid brings the gun up to his mouth and its blurred and then you cut in closer and you see his head sligtly move… [is] the unedited version, which is what I show to people and I have shown in public at screenings. it’s still very subtle but it’s clearer what happens. Right as he puts it in his mouth it cuts to ‘3:30 in the afternoon, an affluent suburb.’”  So we present to you the "Jeremy" video below as well as a live version of the song from the 1992 MTV Video Awards.!