Temple of the Dog - "Hunger Strike"

'Temple of the Dog' were a grunge supergroup from Seattle featuring Chris Cornell (of Soundgarden), Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament (both ex-members of Mother Love Bone and Pearl Jam thereafter), Mike McCready (a friend of Stone Gossard at the time, and Pearl Jam lead guitarist thereafter), drummer Matt Cameron (he also became a member of Pearl Jam) and Eddie Vedder (Lead singer of Pearl Jam, of course). Although, this was before most of them had become so well known.
'Temple of the Dog' originally started as a tribute to Chris Cornell's friend Andrew Wood, the lead singer of Mother Love Bone, who died of an overdose. The idea was to release a tribute single with the other members of 'Mother Love Bone' and it grew to a self titled album released in 1991. "Hunger Strike," a duet between Chris Cornell and Eddie Vedder became the biggest hit, and the best known song from the album. Eddie Vedder had gone to Seattle from San Diego for an audition as the singer of Mookie Blaylock (which eventually became Pearl Jam) and he was in the studio at the time of the recording.
Here is how Chris Cornell remembers it (Thanks to the Spin Magazine article 'Ten Past Ten' from 2001, by Eric Weisbard with Jessica Letkemann, Ann Powers, Chris Norris, William Van Meter, and Will Hermes.....
"I had pulled out "Hunger Strike" and I had this feeling it was just kind of gonna be filler, it didn't feel like a real song. Eddie was sitting there kind of waiting for a [Mookie Blaylock] rehearsal and I was singing parts, and he kind of humbly—but with some balls—walked up to the mic and started singing the low parts for me because he saw it was kind of hard. We got through a couple choruses of him doing that and suddenly the light bulb came on in my head, this guy's voice is amazing for these low parts. History wrote itself after that, that became the single."