Green Day Frontman Arrested

Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong was arrested and charged with driving under the influence on January 5th. The singer was driving a black BMW convertible near Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, California, and stopped for speeding around 1 a.m. He failed a sobriety test and was booked and released on $1,053 bail.

Green Day are at work on a follow-up to 2001's Warning, which is tentatively set for a fall release, and have contributed to Iggy Pop's upcoming album. Armstrong's side band, Pinhead Gunpowder, is planning to release a collection of rare tracks on Green Day's former label, Lookout! Records.

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Song Stories

“Is It True”

Brenda Lee | 1964

As the British Invasion reached its peak in 1964, Brenda Lee went from Nashville to London to record one of her hardest-rocking hits, her perky vocal backed by a stuttering, squalling guitar. That guitar was played by session musician Jimmy Page, yet to skyrocket to fame with first the Yardbirds and then Led Zeppelin. "She said to me, 'I've come here to make a record with the British sound,'" remembered producer Mickie Most. "She felt she wouldn't get the same sound in Nashville because they're only just catching up on the British beat group sound of about six months ago."

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