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December 15, 2005

People of the Year 2005: Billie Joe Armstrong

Rock's rude boy
November 3, 2005

COVER Cover Story: Working Class Heroes

On the road with Green Day, the nation's most passionate punk-rock protest singers
February 24, 2005

COVER Cover Story: Green Day and the Palace of Wisdom

How the brats grew up, bashed Bush and conquered the world
December 15, 2004

People of the Year 2004: Billie Joe Armstrong

Bush won the election, but Green Day scored a Number One album at his expense

American Idiot

Tell the truth: did anybody think Green Day would still be around in 2004? Ten years ago, when they blew up into the hot summer band of 1994, they were snotty little Berkeley, California, punk kids who sounded ready to pogo off the face of the earth in three-chord tantrums such as "Basket Case." Bet...

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Punk revivalists in style, this raucous trio achieved triple-platinum status with their major-label debut, Dookie. Although Green Day's taut, three-minute, guitar-driven songs ably revive the fierceness of the group's stylistic progenitors (the Who, the Clash and the Sex Pistols), punk's original aim — to annoy, outrage, shock — is not Green Day's thing.

Friends since age 10, Billie...

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