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JONATHAN COHEN, BILLBOARD
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
04-27-2006

Let Pearl Jam be Pearl Jam -- Band finds the recipe for revitalization
By JONATHAN COHEN, BILLBOARD
Date: 04-27-2006, Thursday
Section: ENTERTAINMENT
Edtion: All Editions

Eddie Vedder chuckles when he looks back on the early years of Pearl Jam's life cycle and how the group balanced the pressures of success: "You get growing pains when you get taller, but we got them when we were trying to shrink."

The Seattle quintet's 1991 debut, "Ten," remains a modern rock touchstone, having sold 9.4 million copies in the United States. But Pearl Jam grew famously uneasy with its sudden success, refusing to compromise its integrity in ...

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