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Billie Joe Armstrong (born February 17, 1972) is an American musician and actor. 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 is also a guitarist and vocalist for the punk rock band Pinhead Gunpowder, and provides lead vocals for Green Day's side projects Foxboro Hot Tubs, the Network ...
Feb 17, 2021 · 1 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. It was his dad’s ...
Jan 29, 2020 · Billie Joe Armstrong at Webster Hall in New York, Oct. 8, 2016 Ryan Pfluger/The New York Times/Redux. Billie Joe Armstrong remembers asking his guitar teacher a question that would change his life.
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. His father worked as a jazz musician and truck driver for Safeway Inc. to support his family.
Green Day is an American rock band formed in Rodeo, California in 1987 by lead vocalist and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong and bassist and backing vocalist Mike Dirnt, with drummer Tré Cool joining in 1990. In 1994, their major-label debut Dookie, released through Reprise Records, became a breakout success and eventually shipped over 10 million copies in the U.S. Alongside fellow California ...
Jan 18, 2024 · Billie Joe Armstrong, fifty-one, is the lead singer and guitarist of the pioneering punk-pop band Green Day. This year marks the thirtieth anniversary of the group's breakthrough record, Dookie ...
Jan 21, 2024 · BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG: We dressed in disguise, and people just were kind of staring at us. RASCOE: Once they ditched the glasses and all that hair, though, it was Green Day, ...
Billie Joe Armstrong (born February 17, 1972) is the lead singer, songwriter, guitarist, and co-founder of the punk-rock band Green Day.He is also vocalist and guitarist for the band Pinhead ...
Mar 19, 2024 · 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. published 19 March 2024. The world's biggest punk band faced a crossroads in 2004 and it was a case of go big or go home.
Feb 3, 2014 · Green Day Catherine McGann/Getty Images. “Back then, I just wanted to write songs I could be proud of and be able to play in five years,” Green Day singer-guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong says ...
