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Green Day
American rock band
"Sweet Children" redirects here. For their EP, see Sweet Children (EP).
Green Day is an American rock band formed in Rodeo, California, in by lead vocalist and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong and bassist and backing vocalist slang för mikrofon Dirnt, with drummer Tré Cool joining in In , their major-label debut Dookie, released through Reprise Records, became a breakout success and eventually shipped over 20 million copies in the U.S. Alongside fellow California punk bands Bad tro, the Offspring, Rancid, NOFX, Pennywise and Social Distortion, Green Day is credited with re-popularizing mainstream interest in punk rock in the U.S.
Before taking its current name in , the band was named Blood Rage, then Sweet Children. They were part of the late s/early s Bay Area punk scen that emerged from the Gilman Street club in Berkeley, California. The band's early releases were with the independent record label Lookout! Records, including their first skiva,
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Green Day
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In the early s Green Day helped bring a new brand of punk rock to the forefront of mainstream music. Bratty and bored, Green Day appealed to the so-called Generation X crowd&#x;the twentysome-things who were getting bored with the slow-moving angst of grunge music. Green Day&#x;s youthful vigor made their pop punk radio friendly and fun for a range of people, many of whom hadn&#x;t discovered punk before. The fact that they were genuinely nice, articulate guys also gave their career a boost.
Green Day began in the town of Rodeo, California, just 15 miles north of Berkeley. There, ten-year-olds Billie Joe Armstrong and Michael Pritchard&#x;who later changed his last name to Dirnt&#x;met in the school cafeteria. Neither had had a good home life. When he was ten, Armstrong&#x;s jazz music
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Green Day is an Americanrocktrio that formed in The members of the band are Billie Joe Armstrong (vocals, guitar), Mike Dirnt (bass guitar, vocals), and Tré Cool (drums, percussion), Jason White (guitar/vocals) and Jason Freese (keyboard). Jason Freese only participates in concert tours. Green Day is often celebrated as one of the best punk rock bands currently performing.
At first, Green Day was part of the punk rockculture at Gilman Street in Berkeley, California. Its album Dookie () became a success. Soon, it sold more than tenmillion copies in the United States alone, and 20 million copies worldwide.[1] The album was well reviewed and the band were praised for its music and sales.[2][3] Green Day had three more albums after that, Insomniac, Nimrod and Warning. They were still successful albums, reaching double platinum, double platinum, and gold status respectively. However none of these albums sold as well as their third