Reviewed relationship
Eddie Vedder and Pete Townshend
friends
The cited source describes Eddie Vedder and Pete Townshend as friends.
What the source says
“Vedder is a friend of The Who guitarist Pete Townshend, who discouraged Vedder from retiring in 1993. In late 2007, Vedder wrote the foreword to a new Pete Townshend biography, Who Are You: The Life of Pete Townshend. The book was published in the U. K. in March 2008 and in the U. S. in October 2008. Vedder was a close friend of Ramones guitarist Johnny Ramone, with Vedder being at his side when he died. Since Ramone's death, Vedder and Pearl Jam have played the Ramones' "I Believe in Miracles" regularly at live shows. While driving home from Ramone's funeral, Vedder wrote the lyrics for the Pearl Jam song "Life Wasted" (from Pearl Jam).”
Friend.
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