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- Armstrong and his bandmates took inspiration from rock operas and concept albums like the Who’s Quadrophenia and Tommy, David Bowie’s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars and Pink Floyd’s The Wall, but also musicals like Jesus Christ Superstar, The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Grease.
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Billie Joe Armstrong (born February 17, 1972) is an American musician, actor, and businessman. He is best known for being the lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter of the rock band Green Day, which he co-founded with Mike Dirnt in 1987.
- He’s probably one of the first blue collar punks. As well as being a budding jazz musician, Billie Joe’s father, Andy Armstrong, was also a truck driver for Safeway Inc.
- He has a special, long-standing connection to ‘Blue’ At the age of 10, Billie Joe bought his first guitar. Given to him by his mother, Ollie Jackson, the Fernandes Stratocaster copy was given the name ‘Blue’, and the guitar has been played for part of every single Green Day concert the band has ever played.
- He and Mike Dirnt go way back. Friends since the fifth grade, following the death from cancer of Andy Armstrong, Billie Joe, then aged 10, and Mike Dirnt grew especially close.
- His mum liked her job, actually. Billie Joe would in time feel guilty about the lines ‘My mother said to get a job, but she don’t like the one she got’, from Longview.
Aug 9, 2023 · Billy Joe Armstrong, the frontman of Green Day, has had an impactful career in punk rock, environmental activism, and LGBTQ+ advocacy, inspiring fans and musicians worldwide.
Billie Joe Armstrong. Actor: The Simpsons Movie. Billie Joe Armstrong was born in Piedmont, California, a small town surrounded by the city of Oakland, and was raised in Rodeo, California, the youngest of six children of Ollie (Jackson) and Andrew "Andy" Marsicano Armstrong.
- February 17, 1972
- “409 in Your Coffeemaker” Slappy EP (1990) I’d just dropped out of high school, and I was feeling really lost — like a daydreamer who was being left behind.
- “2000 Light Years Away” Kerplunk (1992) The first tour that Green Day ever went on, I met my wife, Adrienne, at a house party in Minneapolis. She asked for an address because we had run out of our vinyl.
- “Welcome to Paradise” Kerplunk (1992); Dookie (1994) I had moved out of my house in the suburbs to West Oakland, into a warehouse that was rat-infested and in a really fucked-up neighborhood, with a lot of crazy punks and friends.
- “She” Dookie (1994) I had a girlfriend named Amanda, this Cal student. I learned a lot about feminism through her. She gave me an education that I think was very timely for me.
Feb 1, 2021 · Before the release of Dookie put him on the rock star treadmill of tour bus bunks and five-star hotels, Billie Joe Armstrong lived in the basement of a dilapidated student house in the Californian college town of Berkeley.
Mar 19, 2024 · Billie Joe Armstrong on American Idiot, the album that saved Green Day | Guitar World. Features. “Every band wants to have a Sgt. Pepper’s type of moment. And American Idiot was that moment for us”: Billie Joe Armstrong on the making of the magnum opus that saved Green Day. By Richard Bienstock.
