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“He looked at me and he goes, ‘You’re the only one that understands me. People think I’m an alien because of the way I play’”: Why Eddie Van Halen cried when he met Billie Joe Armstrong

A 12-year-old Armstrong cried when he witnessed Eddie Van Halen play live for the first time in the '80s. Years later, the roles would be reversed

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“He started crying, and goes, You're the only one that understands me”: Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong recalls the day he made his childhood hero Eddie Van Halen cry

They say that you should never meet your heroes, but meeting Eddie Van Halen was an experience Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong will never forget

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"Rock doesn’t need saving in 2024, but it’s nice to be reminded just how thrilling and relatable three chords and the truth can still be." 'Saviors' is inarguably Green Day's best album in 20 years

After the limp misfire of their last album, Green Day clearly have something to prove

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"That sounds like the demons from hell are rising... I felt like I was being possessed": Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong reveals the Van Halen song which blew his nine-year-old mind, and continues to do so today

Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong recalls his hard rock education before the era of 'The Guitar Olympics'

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Green Day hits back at Elon Musk over ‘American Idiot’ jibe

The band changed the lyrics to their 2004 song ‘American Idiot’ to take a jab at Trump

The Independent UK

“We are on the brink of an autocratic government, someone who is blatantly saying, If I’m president again, I’m going to be a dictator:” Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong fears for America's future

“America is not supposed to be about the cult of personality”

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Amateur singer Lara Trump lashes out at Green Day over MAGA lyrics

The former television producer and amateur singer, who is married to Eric Trump – third child of the former president – said the US rocker ‘couldn’t help himself’ and ‘had to get woke’

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Long-time Donald Trump critics Green Day offend MAGA supporters, Elon Musk and Fox News with updated American Idiot lyric criticising Donald Trump

Some people are upset and indeed outraged after waking up to the realisation that Green Day are not fans of Donald Trump

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Elon Musk Criticises Punk Icon Green Day's Anti-Trump Lyric Change

Trump supporters have accused Green Day of selling out to Joe Biden after the punk band changed the lyrics of "American Idiot" to slam Trump's MAGA agenda.

International Business Times UK

Green Day adapt American Idiot lyrics to take swipe at Trump

‘Green Day goes from raging against the machine to milquetoastedly raging for it,’ Elon Musk says

The Independent UK

Green Day bashes Trump during NYE show

Mid-song during Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, singer Billie Joe Armstrong made a pointed lyric change

Salon

Green Day changes lyric to hit out at Trump in New Year’s Eve performance

Band alters lyric from American Idiot to ‘I’m not a part of the Maga agenda’ during Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve set

The Guardian - US

Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong loves the "gritty, pissed off underdog" that is Millwall FC

Green Day singer Billie Joe reveals that he's a fan of Millwall FC and the notoriously riotous atmosphere at The Den

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Green Day: ‘If you want to experience British culture, go to see Millwall play’

Ahead of a UK tour and the release of their 14th studio album, Saviors, the trio talk conspiracy theories, being lost and what makes a good political song

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"We went to this crazy burlesque show, took off our shirts, and put these nipple tassels on. I've got the photos to prove it!": Green Day reveal how recording 'Saviors' in London threw up some new life experiences

For Green Day, recording their forthcoming album 'Saviors' in London wasn't all work, work, work

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"We’ve seen so many of our peers struggle with addiction and mental illness." Listen to Green Day's deeply "personal" new single, Dilemma

Dilemma is the latest track to be taken from new Green Day album Saviors, and is accompanied by a brand new video

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“I think that this record is sort of the best of everything that Green Day has." Billie Joe Armstrong says forthcoming Green Day album "bridges the gap" between American Idiot and Dookie

Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong says forthcoming LP Saviors is an "essential record" that connects American Idiot and Dookie, and describes it as the best of their career

Evening Standard

Green Day: Band announce track names for Saviors album

Billie Joe Armstrong and co set for mega 2024 on anniversary of Dookie and American Idiot

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Green Day announce club shows in London and Milan

Billie Joe Armstrong and co. line up their smallest UK gig in years, and a similarly intimate date in Italy

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"The cops were setting their dogs on the kids, the kids were throwing bottles at the cops, and I'm like, This is so cool!": The night a free Green Day show turned into a violent punks versus police showdown

"Sometimes I hate the f**king police...": how a free gig from America's hottest punk band set Boston ablaze in 1994

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"Sometimes you take a gamble and luck’s on your side": Listen to raw demos from Green Day's 30th anniversary reissue of their 20 million-selling masterpiece Dookie

Green Day share demos of the pop-punk classics which propelled their third album Dookie to 20 million global sales

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Get Billie Joe Armstrong’s explosive Green Day tone in a compact pedal as MXR brings the Dookie Drive back – again – for a limited time only

New enclosure art, same great amp-stack crunch – the limited run sees the return of the punchy drive that was first launched in 2019 to celebrate 25 years of the band's landmark Dookie album

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"Oh god, there’s a weird old guy naked right in front of me": Watch Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong share his memory of meeting a nude Roger Daltrey

In a 2005 interview, Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong recalled meeting one "member" of The Who

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Green Day's Mike Dirnt wrote the bassline for Longview on LSD: "Later, it took me a long time to be able to play it, but it made sense when I was on drugs"

In praise of Dookie, the 1994 album that put Green Day on the pop-punk throne

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Gibson Billie Joe Armstrong Les Paul Junior review

The Green Day leader gets a new signature in typical showman style, with a fresh pickup design that dates back to the late ’50s

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