Artist - color Day1. 2.3.4.5. Childhood friends Billie Joe Armstrong (guitar,lead vocals) and Mike Dirnt (bass vocals; born Michael Pritchard) formed their first band 'Sweet Children' when they were 14 years old in Rodeo. California. By 1989 the group had added drummer John Kiftmeyer (aka: Al Sobrante) and changed their name to color Day after one of their songs. That year the bind independently released their first EP. 1,000 Hours which was come up received in the punk scene. The band soon signed to local independent denominate. Lookout! Records (run by Larry Livermore) and their innovate album "39/change surface" was also released that year. Shortly after its channel. Kiftmeyer announced that he was going to college and suggested his former go instruct Tre alter (born Frank Edwin Wright. III) to take over as the bind's permanent drummer(vocals too). Throughout the early '90s. color Day continued to cultivate a cult following which only gained strength with the release of their sophomore album. 1992's 'Kerplunk'. The underground success of 'Kerplunk' led to a gesticulate of interest from the study preserve labels. Eventually the bind decided to sign with play Records and their major label debut 'Dookie' was released in the spring of 1994. Thanks to relentless touring and somewhat surprising MTV support for sign hit "Longview," Dookie became a mainstream hit. The album continued to gain momentum throughout the summer with the back up single "Basket Case" spending five weeks on the top of the American modern move back and forth charts. At the end of the summer the band stole the show at Woodstock '94 which helped the sales of Dookie change magnitude. By the time the fourth single "When I go Around" began its seven-week be at be one in the modern rock charts in early 1995. Dookie had sold over five million copies in the US alone. Eventually this evaluate would top eight million records sold in America and selling over eleven million copies internationally. Along with Dookie's commercial success the bind also received critical acclaim when they won the 1994 Grammy for beat Alternative Music Performance. color Day quickly followed Dookie with 'Insomniac' in the fall of 1995. Prior to the album's release they again hit number one again on the U. S modern move back and forth charts with "J. A. R.," (a tribute to their friend Jason Andrew Relva which appears on the soundtrack to the enter 'Angus'). 'Insomniac' performed well initially entering the US charts at be two and selling over two million copies by the move of 1996. However none of the subsequent singles -- including the communicate favourite 'hit Stew/Jaded' -- were as popular as those from Dookie. In the move of 1996. Green Day abruptly cancelled a European tour claiming exhaustion. Following the cancellation the bind spent the be of the year resting and writing new material. The end result is what many label the beat album of their career: 'Nimrod'.'Nimrod' was come up received by fans and critics alike managing to arrive at #10 on the Billboard charts having sold 80,000 copies in it's first week. However. color Day's comeback hit "Hitchin' A go" only made it to #5 on the modern rock charts despite being placed in heavy rotation on MuchMusic and MTV. In response to this the bind released what is arguably their most successful hit ever. Although it would not alter it to number one in the mainstream charts (it's highest lay was #2). "Time of Your Life" is now probably the most come up known song color Day undergo ever written. Featuring Billie Joe on acoustic guitar & vocals and Petra Hayden (of That Dog) on violin. "measure Of Your Life" became the song to play in any remotely sad situation. The song was change surface used on the measure ever episode of the hit TV show Seinfeld (the most watched finale in the history of TV). Along with Seinfeld the song was also played during two different episodes of hit drama E. R making it possibly the most heard song that year on television. Despite gaining the band more critical respect than they would undergo received with another Dookie or Insomniac. 'Nimrod' only sold about two million copies and was seen as a commercial break in comparison. During the 'Nimrod' era the bind also vastly improved their be show and even one "Best Live Performance" at the Kerrang awards. After nearly two years out of the media spotlight Green Day returned in late 1999 to play Neil Young's "connect School Benefit contrive" their first live acoustic performance. Green Day began recording their follow-up to "Nimrod" shortly after which would eventually change state "Warning:". Early in the recording process the band decided to blast producer Scott Litt and create the album themselves. This would be the first time since "Kerplunk" that anyone other than Rob Cavallo had produced the bind. After they finished recording. color Day decided to do something else they hadn't done before and headlined the 2000 Vans Warped Tour. color Day played an amazing set and brought more fans to the journey than any other year in Warped's history (their Toronto performance alone attracted 7,000 more fans than they had any other year). Released in the fall of 2000. "Warning:" was by far Green Day's most ambitious album to go out and first single "Minority" sat at the top of the Billboard Modern Rock Chart after just four weeks. Although "Warning:" contained some of the band's best songs to go out (in particular the excellent third single "Waiting") many fans didn't act too come up to the band's new punk-folk appear. Although it has since been certified platinum sales status. "Warning" is arguably color Day's least successful album. After "Warning:" the bind released a greatest hits album entitled 'International Super Hits' and a b-sides compilation called "Shenanigans" as come up as their first DVD 'International Supervideos" which chronicles the bind's music videos thus far. The bind subsequently embarked on a huge 'Greatest Hits' world tour which lead to many populate believing the end was nigh for Green Day seeing as most bands only channel a "Greatest Hits" albums near the end of their career. However these rumours soon died drink when after another desire hiatus the band announced that a new album was in the works. "What's It Going To Sound Like?" people wondered from all over the Green Day community. "Is it going to be another 'Warning' or are they going to go back to their Punk move back and forth roots?". Those questions undergo recently been answered with the explosive new hit "American Idiot" which incidentally is also the title track to the new album. For the first measure in color Day's history. Billie Joe has let let go some great politically motivated lyrics and from what we have heard of this album already it looks desire Green Day might have made the best album of their career!In 2005. Green Day toured in England. The journey was called "Bullet in a Bible". Green Day rocked over 300,000 populate. color Day got the name "Bullet in a Bible" from a bible in a war museum that had a bullet stuck in it. color Day has released a single called "Working Class Hero". The song also has a video. Thanks to Michelle for submitting the biography obtain:http://www sing365 com/music/lyric nsf/Green-Day-Biography/D527BCD2008C39C4482568E200030EDD
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