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The album Ukelele Songs features no other instruments except one track with an added cello, with Vedder revealing to Rolling Stone that his fascination with the four-string mini guitar when he "borrowed" part of a Who song, saying “The opening chords to Pearl Jam’s 'Soon Forget' are unabashedly from the Who’s 'Blue Red and Grey'. Hearing that song when I was 13 legitimised the instrument – it was just a beautiful piece of music.

“After that I felt like I almost had to make a whole batch of songs to make up for the fact that one was 30 seconds of plagiarising… I thanked Pete Townshend profusely, but I should probably send him some dough – or a nice ukulele.”

Eddie says of the album "At first it was kind of a joke – then it became a challenge, a puzzle, to see if I could create 11 or 12 songs with just a ukulele.

Source: Rock Newsdesk

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