Pearl Jam Covers Two John Lennon Songs In Honor Of His Birthday [LISTEN]

On Thursday night (Oct. 9), veteran rockers Pearl Jam treated fans in Lincoln, NE to two John Lennon covers in honor of the deceased Beatle's birthday.

The 33-song set (see below via Setlist.fm) included Eddie Vedder going solo on The Beatles tune "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" and Lennon's hit "Imagine." The band also ran through Van Halen's "Eruption" and Neil Young's "Rockin' in the Free World," a PJ concert staple. And since they were in the Cornhusker State, the band threw in a debut take of Bruce Springsteen's "Open All Night" off his 1982 album Nebraska. Check out the covers of "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" and "Imagine" below via JamBase.

In July, Vedder performed "Imagine" during a solo show in Portugal. He recently released a recording of the cover to benefit Heartbeat.fm, an organization uniting Israeli and Palestinian youths through music. "They're looking for a reason to go across borders and take over land that doesn't belong to them," Vedder said about Israel at a show this summer. "They should get the f--- out and mind their own f---ing business."

Pearl Jam Setlist Lincoln, Neb. Oct. 9
01. Pendulum
02. Sometimes
03. Nothingman
04. Go
05. Why Go
06. Getaway
07. Corduroy
08. Light Years
09. Mind Your Manners
10. Sirens
11. Present Tense
12. Eruption (Van Halen cover)
13. Even Flow
14. Infallible
15. Do the Evolution
16. Gods' Dice
17. Insignificance
18. 1/2 Full
19. Better Man
20. Porch
Encore
21. You've Got to Hide Your Love Away (The Beatles cover)
22. Imagine (John Lennon cover)
23. Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town
24. Given to Fly
25. Lightning Bolt
26. Jeremy
27. Black
28. Rearviewmirror
Encore 2
29. Smile
30. Open All Night (Bruce Springsteen cover)
31. Alive
32. Rockin' in the Free World (Neil Young cover)
33. Yellow Ledbetter

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Pearl Jam, Eddie Vedder, John Lennon, The Beatles