History of Green Day

The history of Green Day started a long time ago in Rodeo, California when the young friends Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt (born Michael Ryan Pritchard) formed their first band Sweet Children. Soon the band got its first drummer Al Sobrante who considerably helped the band’s development by booking a lot of shows. In 1989 they released their first EP 1,000 Hours, which brought the band more fans, more gigs and eventually a record deal. They got signed to an independent label Lookout! Records, which released their first 2 albums.

Right before the release of 1,039 Smoothed Out Slappy Hours, their first album, Sweet Children changed their name to Green Day. Soon after the release another change came - Al Sobrante quit the band and was replaced by Tre Cool (born Frank Edwin Wright III) who became Green Day’s permanent drummer. Green Day were becoming more and more popular and soon after the release of their second album Kerplunk! in 1992 their success was so obvious that the band began getting offers from major record labels. Eventually, Green Day decided to sign a contract with Reprise Records after getting impressed by the work of the label’s Rob Cavallo, who became the producer and close friend of the band for many years to come.

In the spring of 1994 Green Day released their major label debut Dookie, which was a huge success. Longview and Welcome to Paradise were Green Day’s first promoted video singles and with the help of MTV Dookie turned into an ultimate hit selling over 5 million copies in US only. It eventually sold 8 million in the US and over 12 million internationally. The singles Basket Case and When I Come Around increased the success of the band and still remain among the most well-known Green Day songs. The 1994 gig in Woodstock showed that Green Day were undoubtedly the most successful and loved band of the year.

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Stamps of aproval for album cover

Music fans who are also philatelists will be interested to hear about new set of british stamps featuring classic album cover.
Album cover have depicted work by some of the world's most imaginative graphic artist.These stamps celebrat this unique art from and pay homage to 10 of the finest examples iused by british recording star from the 1960s onward.
Royal mail undertook extensive reserach to choose the most appropriate covers for the issue. A shortist was assembled from polls of greatest album cover in bok,The music press and on the internet .
Some albums had to be rejected due to operational preblems in recording the artwork.But the remaining candidates were circulated to the editors of music pubilication graphics designer and design writer who selected the final 10 earliest cover is Let It Bleed by the rolling stones.This dates from 1969.led zappelin IV,David Bowie's The Rise And Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the spiders From Mars, Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells and london Caling By The Cash all represent the 1970s.
New Order's Power Corruption and lies is the sole 1980s album while the three 1990s covers include a pair from 1994, pink Floyd's The Division Bell and parklife by Blur. The other is primal Scream's Sreamadelica. Coldplay's A Rush of Blood to the Head os the only cover from the 2000s.
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Lady Gaga, Green Day, Pink Added To Grammy Performers Line Up

Lady Gaga, Pink, Green Day, Dave Matthews Band and Zac Brown Band are the latest acts scheduled to perform at the 52nd annual Grammy Awards, it was announced today (Jan. 5) on the Recording Academy's official twitter page.
 Taking place at the Los Angeles' Staples Center on Jan. 31, and airing live on CBS, the Grammys will also feature performances by nominated artists Beyoncé, the Black Eyed Peas, Taylor Swift, Maxwell and Lady Antebellum. More artists and presenters will be revealed soon, according to the announcement.


Now that Lady Gaga and Dave Matthews Band have been added to the roster, all five nominees in the Album of the Year category -- which also includes Beyoncé, the Black Eyed Peas and Swift -- will perform on the show.

Album of the Year is just one of 10 nods for Beyonce's "I Am… Sasha Fierce," whose nomination domination is followed by eight nods for Swift's "Fearless," six each for Maxwell, the Peas and Kanye West and five each for Jay-Z and Gaga. One artist who will definitely not be making a victory speech Grammy night is Miley Cyrus, who lost her Grammy bid for Best Song Written for Motion Picture, Television, Or Other Visual Media last month, after Walt Disney Records disclosed that Cyrus' ballad "The Climb" was not expressly written for "Hannah Montana: The Movie." The teen pop star's nod was replaced with Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman Karen O's "All Is Love" from the "Where the Wild Things Are" soundtrack.