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...

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Jeremy Delle was just 15 years old when he killed himself in front of his classmates on . Then, Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder was inspired to write the song "Jeremy" about him.

“Jeremy” by Pearl Jam is one of the band’s most unsettling and emotional songs. The song’s meaning centers on a real-life tragedy: a teenage boy who took his own life in front of his classmates. Eddie Vedder wrote the lyrics after reading about the story in a newspaper.

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."

Pearl Jam "Jeremy": At home drawing pictures of mountain tops With him on top, lemon yellow sun Arms raised in a "V" And...

Jeremy (/ ˌdʒɛrɛmi / JERR-em-ee) is an Anglo-Saxon English-language masculine name, deriving from various translations and interpretations as the anglicized and diminutive form of the Hebrew given name Jeremiah, a major prophet of the Old Testament known for his prophecies of judgment and hope.