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Ragged, real, and countercultural: That was grunge, and grunge was the nineties. From Kurt Cobain's furious passion to Chris Cornell's unforgettable, haunting lyrics, grunge was the musical genre that defined a generation. Sadly, many of the genre's biggest figures have now passed away, leaving heartbroken fans and tragic stories.

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Eddie Vedder, on the other hand, is still going strong. As the frontman of Pearl Jam, Vedder has become the most prominent surviving icon of his era. And while Vedder — unlike so many of his contemporaries — never fell into the throes of excessive drug abuse and/or addiction, he has faced numerous challenges in his life. From his early family struggles, to dropping out of school, to the strange and personal hardships of rediscovering himself once Pearl Jam became one of the biggest bands in the world, Vedder has proven to be a dedicated performer, a never-ending advocate for social justice, a surfing enthusiast, and a figure who has solidified his role in music history, forever.

Eddie Vedder was born and raised with two different names

Born Edward Louis Severson III in 1964, as detailed by Biography, the boy that would one day be Eddie Vedder got off to a rough start. House of fun is it real money. His parents divorced not long after he came into the world, and his mother remarried a man named Mueller. Thus, for much of the boy's younger years, he was led to believe that his stepfather was his real dad, and he went by the name 'Eddie Mueller.' When he finally found out he'd been lied to, the truth hit him hard.

Vedder later told the Los Angeles Times that it 'wasn't a happy childhood.' The environment was tense, and by age 15, he'd already moved out into his own apartment. He worked at a drug store, struggled to keep up in school, and resented his peers for the privileges they took for granted, such as going to prom, or having parents who could give them a car as a gift. For the most part, he felt alone. As he puts it, 'I'd fall asleep and things in class and they'd lecture me about the reality of their classroom. I said one day, 'You want to see my reality?' I opened up my backpack to where you usually keep your pencils. That's where I kept my bills . . . electric bills, rent . . . That was my reality.'

Soon enough, it was too much to balance, and he dropped out of school.

Music was always Eddie Vedder's lifeline

Throughout family struggles, economic struggles, and dropping out of school, the one thing that consistently kept the young Eddie Vedder (at that time, Eddie Mueller) going was his passion for music. It was the Jackson Five who first got his attention, according to the Los Angeles Times, but his pivotal influence would prove to be the Who's Who's Next album, first introduced to him by a babysitter. By age 12, he talked his family into gifting him a guitar, and from there, music became his foremost hobby.

1984 was the year where a then-20-year-old Eddie Vedder landed in California, guitar in hand, and decided to make a go at a musical career, according to Biography. He paid the bills by working as a hotel security guard, and furthered his talent by joining local bands. Getting past his naturally shyer tendencies was something of a struggle on stage, and he actually wore a 'mask' to his early performances, which consisted of goggles that had been painted over to block out the audience. The more he did this, of course, the more confident he became.

Soon enough, he connected to some former members from the band Mother Love Bone, who were so impressed with his song 'Alive' that they wanted him to form a band with them. Vedder followed them to Seattle, and within less than a year, the band — who would soon become known as Pearl Jam — hit number one.

Eddie Vedder's great-grandma Pearl made some great jam .. (or didn't)

Okay, so everyone knows what 'Nirvana' means, or can figure out easily enough. A band name like 'Soundgarden' explains itself .. but what the hell is a 'Pearl Jam' supposed to be, exactly?

Weird as that name might be, though, it could've been a whole lot weirder: as the New York Times points out, Pearl Jam originally called themselves Mookie Blaylock, after their favorite NBA player. A cool name for a person? Sure. But a terrible name for a band, unless, you know, all their songs were going to be about basketball. In any case, they soon rechristened themselves Pearl Jam, and by 1991, Vedder told Rolling Stone a rather fascinating origin story behind the name: evidently, his great-grandmother had been named Pearl, and she's used hallucinogenic ingredients like peyote to produce the world's trippiest preserve, or in other words, 'Pearl's jam.' Spread some of that on your toast, folks.

Cool tale? For sure. It's also a load of crap. In 2006, Vedder admitted to Rolling Stone that while his grandmother was indeed named Pearl, the whole hallucinogenic jam thing was, in his words, 'Total bull—-.' The truth? Apparently, the 'pearl' part of the name was something that Jeff Ament randomly came up with in a restaurant, and the 'jam' part is a reference to musical jams, rather than the stuff you combine with peanut butter.

Eddie Vedder is a devoted activist

Throughout his career, Eddie Vedder has been an outspoken advocate for social justice, both on and off the stage. As described by the Sydney Morning Herald, he often railed against the George W. Bush administration, and he has listed causes like 'people on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose' as being close to his heart. As Global Citizen points out, Pearl Jam founded the Vitalogy Foundation in 2006, a nonprofit organization that supports community health, education, and more. Vedder also is co-founder of the EB Research Partnership, according to Biography, which helps fund treatments for childhood skin disorders. In fact, Pearl Jam has stated that they donate $2 from every ticket sold at every show to causes supported by their foundation. Even relatively small matters don't escape Vedder's attention, as demonstrated in 2016, when he donated $10,000 to a poor Maryland family facing eviction, via Rolling Stone.

Basically, Eddie Vedder is someone who always puts his money where his mouth is. If he believes in a cause, he dedicates himself to it. One of his biggest advocacy success stories was his support of the West Memphis Three. As a fierce critic of the U.S. prison system, Vedder discovered that these three boys had been imprisoned due to a poorly run investigation in 1993, and he performed benefit concerts for them. This raised awareness for their plight, and when new forensic evidence was brought to light in 2011, they were released.

Kurt Cobain's death hit Eddie Vedder hard

The conventional media narrative is that Nirvana and Pearl Jam were engaged in a harsh rivalry. The truth isn't quite so clean-cut.

As explained by the Washington Post, Cobain certainly did antagonize the other band, once remarking, 'I find it offensive to be lumped in with bands like Pearl Jam.' By 1992, though, as the Los Angeles Times points out, Cobain came to regret these insults, stating, 'I'm not going to do that anymore .. it hurts Eddie and he's a good guy.' This isn't surprising, really, since Cobain and Vedder came from similarly painful backgrounds, and both of them struggled with the burden of how fame transformed them from shy outsiders into massive public figures. In fact, Vedder later reminisced to Rolling Stone about a rather intimate moment between the two grunge icons at the 1994 MTV Music Awards, wherein the two of them slow-danced to Eric Clapton's 'Tears in Heaven' beneath the stage.

The news of Kurt Cobain's death, then, was something which genuinely devastated Vedder. 'When I first found out, I was in a hotel room in Washington, D.C., and I just tore the place to shreds,' Vedder said, in 1994. 'Then I just kind of sat in the rubble, which somehow felt right .. (it felt) like my world at the moment.' As time has passed, Vedder

What Is Eddie Money's Real Name