Pearl Jam shared a heartfelt statement in honor of the nine people who died during a show at a Denmark music festival in 2000.
June 30 marked the 20-year anniversary of the band’s performance at the Roskilde Festival, an annual music festival that takes place roughly 25 miles outside of Copenhagen.Tragedy struck that day when the crowd’s size became unmanageable, resulting in the death of nine young men, ages 17 to 26, who either suffocated or were trampled in the mosh pit. “An unexpected moment intervened that forever changed all involved,” Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard wrote on behalf of the band Tuesday. “The 9 young men who were trampled.The lives of their families and loved ones who had to endure imagining their deaths over and.
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