" Jeremy " is a song by American rock band Pearl Jam, with lyrics written by vocalist Eddie Vedder and music composed by bassist Jeff Ament. "Jeremy" was released in August 1992 as the third single from Pearl Jam's debut album, Ten (1991).

Originally released in 1992, the Jeremy video brought attention to gun violence, teen suicide, and violence in schools.

The song takes its main inspiration from a newspaper article about a 15-year-old boy named Jeremy Wade Delle from Richardson, Texas who killed himself in front of his English classmates at...

In 2017, Jeremy Wade Delle's mother Wanda Crane spoke about the song and her son's death for the first time. "That day that he died did not define his life," she told Texas TV station WFAA.

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PJ’s ‘Jeremy’ became a classic grunge song that touched many people all over the world and immortalized the last act of a confused and depressed boy. For the Delle family, the popularity of the song became a nightmare.

A full eight years before the shootings at Columbine High School resulted in the deaths of 13 students in Littleton, Colorado, well before school shootings became tragically passe, and before online bullying even existed, Pearl Jam released their 1991 masterpiece "Jeremy."

For 27 years, his mother hasn't spoken publicly about Jeremy's death – until now. You've likely heard the Pearl Jam song "Jeremy." What you might not know is that the story behind the song...