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Signed colour 10" x 8" photo of Green Day. The photo is hand signed in black marker pen.
Price: £39.99
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Green Day
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Biography
Green Day is an American punk rock band formed in 1987. The band consists of
lead vocalist and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist and backing vocalist
Mike Dirnt, and drummer Tré Cool.
Green Day was originally part of the punk scene at 924 Gilman Street in
Berkeley, California. The band's early releases for independent record label
Lookout! Records earned it a grassroots fanbase. In 1994, its major label debut
Dookie became a breakout success and eventually sold over 10 million copies in
the U.S. and 15 million worldwide. As a result, Green Day was widely credited,
alongside fellow California punk bands The Offspring and Rancid, with
popularizing and reviving mainstream interest in punk rock in the United States.
Green Day's three follow-up albums, Insomniac, Nimrod, and Warning did not
achieve the massive success of Dookie, but they were still successful, reaching
double platinum, double platinum, and gold status respectively. Their 2004 rock
opera American Idiot reignited the band's popularity with a younger generation,
selling five million copies in the U.S. The band's eighth studio album, 21st
Century Breakdown, was released in 2009.
Green Day has sold over 65 million records worldwide and 24.639 million in the
US alone. They have won four Grammy Awards: Best Alternative Album for Dookie,
Best Rock Album for American Idiot, Record of the Year for "Boulevard of Broken
Dreams", and Best Rock Album for the second time for 21st Century Breakdown.
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