Green+Day

=Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt formed the band “Sweet Children” back in 1987. Later the same year the drummer John Kiffmeyer joined the band. 1989 they changed their name to Green Day. But as they were starting to get popular John Kiffmeyer left them to pursue his education instead. Frank Wright also known as Tre Cool replaced Kiffmeyer as the bands drummer. = =In 1990 they released the first album called 39/Smooth at the local independent record label Lookout! Records. Their second album Kerplunk sold 30.000 ex. which made bigger record labels to notice them. = = = =They signed onto Reprise Records in 1993. The album Dookie hit the stores in February 1994 and becomes a massive success much thanks to MTV for their support on the albums first single Longview. The second single Basket Case spent five weeks on the top of American modern rock charts. And at the end of the summer 94 they stole the show of the Woodstock Festival which increased the sales of Dookie even further. The bands big breakthrough was now a fact with a number of awards and selling an impressive 11milions copies of Dookie internationally. = = = =In 1995 Green Day released their forth album Insomniac but it didn’t sell nearly as good as Dookie had done. = = = =Their fifth album Nimrod included the ballad Good Riddance (time of your life) which was played in the very last episode of the hit TV series Seinfeld final episode (which was the most watched finale in TV-history) and also became very popular at graduations. = = = =After that they took a pause and didn’t release a new album until 2000 when they released their album Warning in which the band had matured considerably. The following two years they released two collectors album International Superhits and Shenanigans the first was a greatest hits CD and the second was collection of b-sides. = = = =In 2004 Green Day released their first concept album the ambitious rock-opera American Idiot. The album tells the story of the rebel “Jesus of suburbia” and the song Wake me up when September ends is about when Billie Joe’s father Andy died of cancer when Billie Joe was ten years old. The original album caught the fans attention and was an enormous success which also made Green Day’s previous records to sell more to. The following year Green day did their biggest tour ever with over 150 gigs they also made the live DVD Bullet in the Bible on their gigs in Milton Keynes in UK. = = = =In 2006 they make a cover of The Skids song When the Saints are coming together with U2 in order to collect money for the victims in the Katrina disaster. In 2007 they made a cover of John Lennon’s song Working class hero to support Amnesty Internationals Save Darfur Campaign. = = = =In 2009 Green Day released their highly anticipated eight album 21st Century Breakdown which was the bands second concept album. The album follows the young couple Christian and Gloria through their challenges in the present USA. 21st century breakdown has sold extremely well and has the best chart performance of all Green Day albums for example reaching number one on United States Billboard and United Kingdom Albums Chart. =

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