PEARL JAM PAY TRIBUTE TO JOE STRUMMER AT ISLE OF WIGHT FESTIVAL 2012

After two sold out shows at the Manchester Evening News Arena this week American rockers Pearl Jam closed the second day at The Isle of Wight Festival with a special tribute to Clash frontman Joe Stummer. "He would have loved this place," Vedder told the crowd. "We were thinking about it on the way here, and sad to say, it’ll be almost 10 years in December he’s not been with us." The band then went on to cover the Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros' 'Arms Aloft'.

The band also done a cover of The Beatles ''Rain'' in fitting circumstances as the festival was a complete washout throughout the day. Mud, rain, Eddie Vedder and Pearl Jam in fine form we are glad to report.