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THE WORLD'S FIRST GREEN DAY BIOGRAPHY After fifteen years together and still only in their early thirties, Green Day are the biggest punk band in the world. Self-confessed latch-key kids from small blue-collar Californian towns, Green Day's story is far from simple: bassist Dirnt was born addicted to heroin and left home at fifteen singer Billie-Joe was the youngest of six children whose father died when he was young; and drummer Tre Cool was rarely at home and gigging at the age of twelve. Inspired by both the energy of British punk bands like the Sex Pistols and Buzzcocks and cult American bands such as Dead Kennedys and Husker Du Green Day formed in 1989 when all three members were still at school. Against a backdrop of dodgy glam rock revivalists and mainstream rock-pop, the trio were quickly selling out every underground club that booked them. Word spread fast. Two modest albums down the line, their 1994 major label debut Dookie, was a 10-million-selling worldwide hit album that seized the zeilgest while rock music was still reeling from the death of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain. Punk was back on the agenda. Throughout the Nineties, Green Day asserted themselves as godfathers to a new breed of bands such as Sum 41 and Blink-182. They toured the world, headlined all the big festivals, won countless awards and released multi-million selling albums. In 2004 Green Day reached a career pinnacle with the concept album American idiot, a sophisticated commentary on modern life. The No. 1 success of the album, extended Green Day's fanbase even further - from pre-teen kids to previously sceptical critics - making them one of the world's biggest rock bands.
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1. Green’s Day’s seventh and most recent album, American Idiot is the album of its time, sound-tracking feelings of political unrest and resistance in America and going to number one around world - including the UK, in January 2005.
2. Tickets for Green Day’s UK arena tour of January/February 2005 sold out in minutes. They return to play the enormous Milton Keynes bowl in June 2005, the month of publication, in front of approximately 100,000 people - the biggest punk performance the UK has ever seen. The year 2005 also sees them conduct a world tour playing stadiums and arenas.
3. Green Day have influenced a new generation of skate punk bands such as Sum 41, Blink 182, New Found Glory and are the most respected and critically acclaimed band of their genre.
4. American Idiots... contains exclusive band interviews from the author’s archive and eyewitness accounts of some of the band’s most pivotal moments.
5. For the first time in a book, American Idiots... also examines the context of the Nineties punk renaissance and its many major players in minute detail.
6. This is the world’s first biography of Green Day.
2. Tickets for Green Day’s UK arena tour of January/February 2005 sold out in minutes. They return to play the enormous Milton Keynes bowl in June 2005, the month of publication, in front of approximately 100,000 people - the biggest punk performance the UK has ever seen. The year 2005 also sees them conduct a world tour playing stadiums and arenas.
3. Green Day have influenced a new generation of skate punk bands such as Sum 41, Blink 182, New Found Glory and are the most respected and critically acclaimed band of their genre.
4. American Idiots... contains exclusive band interviews from the author’s archive and eyewitness accounts of some of the band’s most pivotal moments.
5. For the first time in a book, American Idiots... also examines the context of the Nineties punk renaissance and its many major players in minute detail.
6. This is the world’s first biography of Green Day.
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