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Biography
Green Day is a punk-rock band from the United States, which was formed in 1986 and has reached the top of the Billboard 200 with hits such as Dookie and American Idiot. Currently, the band has sold more than 85 million copies around the world, selling more than 30 million in their own country.
The band began under the name Sweet Children in 1982 when guitar duo Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt recruited John Kiffmeyer as drummer and Sean Hughes as bassist. With punk-rock bands like Social Distortion, Operation Ivy and Hüsker Dü as references, the group rehearsed until they were able to perform in Vallejo in 1987, at Rod's Hickory Pit in front of about thirty people. After that, they settled in Berkeley, where California punk was a big influence. The following year, the bassist, Sean Hughes, quit the band, so Dirnt became the bassist and the band became a trio. John Kiffmeyer was not only the drummer but also the band's manager, and he managed to position Sweet Children within the Berkeley music scene thanks to his influences and effort.
In 1989, the group, renamed to avoid confusion with the local band Sweet Baby and now called Green Day, after a song they wrote about a day dedicated to smoking marijuana, recorded the EP 1,000 Hours with the independent record label Lookout! Records. Later, in 1990, they recorded another EP, Slappy, the first of their albums, 39/Smooth, and the Sweet Children EP. The following year, they compiled all of their previously released work on the album 1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours and John Kiffmeyer (Al Sobrante) left Green Day to continue his studies at Humboldt State University. For this reason, the group added drummer Tré Cool, whom they had known since playing as Sweet Children, to their lineup. At the beginning, this replacement was only provisional; but later it was definitive and it is the conformation that the group kept until today.
After releasing Kerplunk in 1992 and selling more than 55,000 copies, the label Reprise became interested in the group and got them to sign a contract. This led to the band being kicked out of the 924 Gilman Street club and being called "sellouts" and "commercials" by many of their fans and people in the punk scene. However, in 1994 they released the album Dookie, which reached the second position on the Billboard 200 list in the United States and entered the charts in several countries as well. This meant not only the definitive success of the band, but also the return of punk in the mid-nineties. This album soon acquired diamond status, being the only one of its kind that the band has to this day, and allowed them to make their first international tour, perform at the 1994 Woodstock and win the Grammy for best alternative music album.
In 1995, they released Insomniac, an album that was successful, but not as successful as Dookie, and in 1997 they released Nimrod, which granted them two platinum records and the MTV award for best alternative video; however, its reception was not quite as expected. After this, Green Day rested until 2000, when they released Warning, which was well received by the critics, although sales were weak. For this same date, Jason White joined the band as guitarist. In the time following this, they released two compilation albums: International Supershits!
and Sheanigans, although the band was losing its importance in the musical field. Due to this, the band had four years of silence, in which they lost the recordings of the album Cigarretes And Valentines and experimented with different genres, until achieving American Idiot in 2004. This album meant the resurgence of a band that everyone thought was destined to fail, and managed not only to give them back the reputation they had cultivated with Dookie, but also to consecrate them as a mature band. American Idiot won seven MTV awards, the Grammy for best rock album, and the number one position in the lists of the best albums of the decade in Rolling Stone and Kerrang! magazines.
After a long international tour to promote their latest hit, the band released 21st Century Breakdown in 2009, and the trilogy of ¡Uno!, ¡Dos! and ¡Tré! in 2012. In 2014, the band was added to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Two years later, the band released the single Ban Bang and then the album Revolution Radio. Currently, they are still playing and have already announced the title of their new work, God's Favorite Band.
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