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By: Maitane Torres
Background information Origin Genre(s) Years active Label(s) Website
East Bay, California, USA Pop-punk Alternative rock Punk rock 1989–present Skene! Records (1990) Lookout! Records (1989-1993) Reprise Records (1993-present) greenday.com Members Billie Joe Armstrong Mike Dirnt Tré Cool Former members Al Sobrante
• Green Day is an American musical group consisting of three core members: Billie Joe Armstrong (guitar, lead vocals), Mike Dirnt (bass) and Tré Cool (drums). Their back up players on guitar, keyboards, and trumpet are Jason White, Jason Freese, and Ronnie Blake. Green Day is widely credited, along with fellow California punk bands The Offspring and Rancid, with reviving mainstream interest in and popularizing punk rock in the United States during the mid 1990s. Their success has influenced prominent pop punk bands like Sum 41 and Good Charlotte.
• The band has sold over 30 million albums in the United States, and over 70 million records worldwide, making them the most successful punk band of all time. Green Day currently has three Grammy Awards under their belt for Alternative Album for Dookie, Best Rock Album for American Idiot and Record of the Year for their single "Boulevard of Broken Dreams".
Date of release
Title
Record label
April 1990
39/Smooth
Lookout! Records
January 7, 1992
Kerplunk!
Lookout! Records
February 1, 1994
Dookie
Reprise Records
October 10, 1995
Insomniac
Reprise Records
October 14, 1997
Nimrod.
Reprise Records
October 3, 2000
Warning:
Reprise Records
September 21, 2004
American Idiot
Reprise Records
Background information Origin Genre(s) Years active Label(s) Website
East Bay, California, USA Pop-punk Alternative rock Punk rock 1989–present Skene! Records (1990) Lookout! Records (1989-1993) Reprise Records (1993-present) greenday.com Members Billie Joe Armstrong Mike Dirnt Tré Cool Former members Al Sobrante
• Green Day is an American musical group consisting of three core members: Billie Joe Armstrong (guitar, lead vocals), Mike Dirnt (bass) and Tré Cool (drums). Their back up players on guitar, keyboards, and trumpet are Jason White, Jason Freese, and Ronnie Blake. Green Day is widely credited, along with fellow California punk bands The Offspring and Rancid, with reviving mainstream interest in and popularizing punk rock in the United States during the mid 1990s. Their success has influenced prominent pop punk bands like Sum 41 and Good Charlotte.
• The band has sold over 30 million albums in the United States, and over 70 million records worldwide, making them the most successful punk band of all time. Green Day currently has three Grammy Awards under their belt for Alternative Album for Dookie, Best Rock Album for American Idiot and Record of the Year for their single "Boulevard of Broken Dreams".
Date of release
Title
Record label
April 1990
39/Smooth
Lookout! Records
January 7, 1992
Kerplunk!
Lookout! Records
February 1, 1994
Dookie
Reprise Records
October 10, 1995
Insomniac
Reprise Records
October 14, 1997
Nimrod.
Reprise Records
October 3, 2000
Warning:
Reprise Records
September 21, 2004
American Idiot
Reprise Records
