So I’ve been reminding myself and those in the audience where that song came from. That’s great that it’s become this anthem that makes somebody feel some comfort when they’ve lost someone, but recently I’ve become a little more possessive of the idea that this song was actually written for a specific guy and I haven’t forgotten that person. Temple of the Dog’s Hunger Strike sees the narrator adapt a Robin-hood mindset where he is comfortable stealing from the rich in order to feed the poor. "Say Hello 2 Heaven”, for example, was one of the songs I wrote directly for Andy Wood and the amount of times someone has requested I play that song for someone else who’s died have been numerous. Later, in a 2016 interview, Cornell said: "With all that’s been written about Temple of the Dog recently, it’s reminded me of the original meanings of those songs. Stone and Jeff and our drummer, Matt, had been working on a demo for what ended up being Pearl Jam, so we had the idea that we would make an EP or a record, and maybe even do some of Andy’s solo songs.“
That was pretty much how I dealt with it. 'Hunger Strike' is a song written by Chris Cornell and released in 1991 as the first single from the only studio album by Temple Of The Dog, a band consisting of members of Soundgarden and Pearl Jam. I wrote two songs, "Reach Down” and “Say Hello 2 Heaven”. Released in 1991, it was the second single from the band’s sole studio album, “Temple of the Dog” (1991).Ĭhris Cornell wrote the song as a tribute to his friend Andrew Wood, vocalist and frontman of Mother Love Bone, who at the time had recently died of a heroin overdose.Ĭornell stated: “Right after Andy died, we went to Europe, and it was horrible, because I couldn’t talk about it, and there was no one who had loved him around.
“Say Hello 2 Heaven” is a song by the American rock band Temple of the Dog.
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