Three of the last decade's biggest rock names collaborated Saturday night on the final date of U2's two-year Vertigo tour. For the final night, U2 recruited fellow arena rockers Pearl Jam to open its performance at Honolulu's Aloha Stadium. Pearl Jam dotted its short set with hits, including 1990s chart toppers "Even Flow," "Better Man" and "Alive," as well as the Who's "Baba O'Riley." Reprising their recent Australian collaboration, Eddie Vedder and Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready joined U2 for a reworked version of Neil Young's "Rockin' in the Free World" during the group's second encore. Earlier this fall, the two rock titans reworked the lyrics to  Young's 1980s anthem for an anti-poverty concert. Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong also made a surprise appearance with U2 on its cover of the Skids' "The Saints Are Coming" (a song the two bands recently recorded for a charity single). U2 closed its world tour on a tender note, offering "All I Want Is You." According to reports, U2 will return to the studio in 2007 to begin work on its next album.

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