Green Day Biography

Punk revivalists with style substance and hooks galore Green Day have gone through two distinct identities. They were bratty mischievous twenty-somethings when they hit MTV in 1994 and with a green-haired snaggle-toothed Billie Joe Armstrong ripping up the furniture dancing with a monkey and singing about the joys of masturbation the raucous trio's major-label debut Dookie went triple-platinum. But Green Day became elder statesmen during the 2000s with American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown—a pair of epic politically charged rock and roll operas that chronicled the confused reality of life in the first decade of the new millennium.
Friends since age 10 Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt grew up in Rodeo California. They formed their first real band Sweet Children at 14. When they were 17 the pair first recorded as Green Day signing with the punk label Lookout and releasing the 1989 EP 1000 Hours with drummer John Kiffmeyer. The next year the group recorded its first full-length album 39/Smooth in a day. Two more EPs followed with Kiffmeyer leaving to focus on his studies and Tre Cool with whom Armstrong had played in a band called the Lookouts taking over on drums for 1992's Kerplunk. With a solid fanbase built on the nurturing all-ages hardcore scene in Berkeley the group signed with Reprise in April 1993. Its 1994 release Dookie proclaimed the next generation of punk hitting Number Four on the album chart buoyed by the band's effervescent presence on MTV and at Lollapalooza and Woodstock 1004. The album won a 1994 Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Performance and sold 10 million copies worldwide.

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