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Eddie Vedder works on music for documentary

Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam) live at Carling Weekend Festival 2006

Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam) live at Carling Weekend Festival 2006

Pearl Jam frontman teams up with John Legend for project

Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder has teamed up with John Legend for the Howard Zinn documentary ’The People Speak’.

The pair will handle the music for the documentary, which is based on the book ‘A People’s History Of The United States’.

Matt Damon, Marisa Tomei, Danny Glover and Viggo Mortensen are also involved in the project which is set to begin production next month in Boston.

Vedder provided the music for the Sean Penn-directed ‘Into The Wild’, currently in US movie theatres.

--By our New York staff.
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