Green Day
Biography
In 1987, school friends Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt (real name Michel Ryan Pritchard) decided to organize their own punk command and called it Sweet Children. In 1988, the band added to its lineup drummer John Kiffmeyer, known as Al Sobrante. In 1989, the group (by that moment renamed in Green Day) released their first EP 1,000 Hours. Bright gigs formed a big fan base for the band and its debut 1,039-Smoothed Out Slappy Hours became a hit in punk circles of the USA. Soon after the first US tour, Al Sobrante left Green Day and former The Lookouts drummer Tre Cool replaced him. The band actively toured along the USA and Europe for about two years. They recorded disc Kerplunk! when the tour ended. Kerplunk! caught the attention of major labels and soon Green Day singed a deal with Reprise Records, getting Rob Cavallo as their producer.
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Reviews
21st Century Breakdown2009
The US punk rock band Green Day recorded a first studio attempt in about five years. The rock opera 21st Century Breakdown became an impressive love story of a boy and a girl in the USA, suffering the crisis
Bullet In A Bible: Live2005
In the summer of 2005 Green Day performed live in Milton Keynes, UK. Bullet in a Bible is a powerful document of those concerts and a worthy second part of the story begun with the release of the American Idiot album
American Idiot2004
At once evocative, mature, silly and most of all fun, this is by far Green Day’s most consistent and enjoyable album since
