Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder made a surprise appearance at the Oscars Sunday night, covering Tom Petty’s “Room at the Top” during the show’s “In Memoriam” segment. Eagle-eyed Twitter users saw the singer at the beginning of the broadcast, seated a few rows behind Meryl Streep. Armed only with a solitary electric guitar, Vedder’s bittersweet cover of late-era Petty (the song is from 1999’s “Echo), who also died in 2017, and was backed by a string section as images and clips from the likes of John Heard, Jane Foray, Martin Landau, Glenne Headly, Roger Moore, George A. Romero and Jerry...
- 3/5/2018
- by Daniel Kohn
- The Wrap
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