Jonathan Cohen Pearl Jam has honored the memories of the nine fans crushed to death during its June 30, 2000, Roskilde Festival performance with an emotional statement authored by guitarist Stone Gossard on behalf of the band. “It’s been 20 years since that day,” Gossard writes. “But nothing has been the same since.”The band was in middle of performing “Daughter,” the 12th song of its set, when the general admission crowd surged forward and dozens of fans lost their footing in the mud-soaked field.
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