Billie Joe Armstrong
Billie Joe Armstrong is the lead singer of the punk rock band green day. The main people in the band are Billie Joe Armstrong-lead guitar/lead vocalist, Mike Dirnt-base guitar/backing vocals, Tre Cool-drums. Green day often have to bring in extra musicians for some of their songs but mainly it is just the 1 extra called Jason white who plays lead guitar and rhythm. Green day were known as the ones that fought for what they believed in and didn’t care about the criticism they might get, doing this they released a top 10 song American idiot
Billie Joe Armstrong grew up in Rodeo, California, the youngest of six. His father, Andy Armstrong, was a retired minor league baseball player, who worked as a bartender and truck driver for Safeway to support the family. His dad died of cancer when he was 10 in september 1982 and later on he devoted a song to him wake me up when september ends. Billie went to pinnole high school where he met Mike Dirnt and created the band “Sweet Children” with drummer al sorbrante but then changed there name to “green day”. Afteer being signed by look out records the made there debut album 1,039/smoothed out slappy hours, the title was made from there Eps “39/smooth, 1000hours and slappy”. After this al sorbrante left the band to go to college and tre cool was then picked to be the new drummer and he was then in the next album kerplunk. After this they made there most famous album dookie which was instantly fought for in the shops as there was 5 million records sold in the us alone. This album broke green day into the main stream and now they have become one of the most popular rock bands since then.
