Green Day is one of the punk rock bands in America and are well known a artists in the whole world.This band has been able to keep alive the punk rock.it has the total of three members.Billie Joe Armstrong (lead guitarist and vocals), Mike Drint(bass) and Tree Cool (Drums).John Kiffmeyer was Green Days original drummer but he left the band for his studies.
The band was formed in 1989 and has become successful to sell their music.They produced numerous albums and had a lot of hits.The band became popular gradually along with their music. Their first album was Kerplunk.then the next album was Dookie which was a great hit and sold over 15 million copies.it was also nominated for the best alternative album and they also won the Grammy Awards for the first time in 1994.
The band's next album, 'Insomniac' (1995), was much darker than the more melodic 'Dookie' and won them award nominations for Favorite Artist, Favorite Hard Rock Artist and Favourite Alternative Artist at the 1996 American Music Awards. The video for the single 'Walking Contradiction' received a Grammy nomination for Best Video, Short Film and an MTV nomination for Best Special Effects.
Then they released the experimental album 'Nimrod' (1997), which was a break from their usual music and more in the style of laid-back surfer rock, silly ska, upbeat pop/punk and acoustic ballads. The surprise hit from this album 'Good Riddance (Time of your Life)' once again won them an MTV Award for Best Alternative Video.
Jason White (guitar, backing vocals) became the fourth band member in 1999. Taking the style of 'Nimrod' (1997) a little further, Green Day released 'Warning' (2000), proud that it was their strongest work together. The album's definitive sound reflected the fact that the band members had not only stopped smoking marijuana as much as they previously did, but they had also matured somewhat in the interim.
The resulting album, 'American Idiot' (2004), proved their biggest hit to date, with some referring to it as "punk rock opera". It sold 1.5 million units in its first week and went straight to number one in the US, UK, Canada, Australia and Japan, following the single of the same name, which entered the UK singles charts at number three.
The band was nominated for six Grammy Awards in 2004, with 'American Idiot' winning a Grammy for Best Rock Album. The band had also changed their image. They stopped dyeing their hair pink and green, and began wearing eyeliner and black clothes with red ties onstage.
In 2005, Green Day went on a world tour to promote their new album. It was the longest tour of their career and lasted 150 dates, including shows in England, Australia, Japan and South America. Recording the two shows at England's Milton Keanes National Bowl, Green Day released this as a DVD called 'Bullet in a Bible' (2005), including behind the scenes footage of the band which was voted 'Best Show on Earth' by Kerrang! magazine. At the 2005 MTV Awards, they won a total of seven of the eight awards for which they were nominated.
In 2006, they won another Grammy Award for Record of the Year in recognition of their success with 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams' from the 'American Idiot' (2004) album. The single spent 16 weeks at number one on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks.
The band was nominated for six Grammy Awards in 2004, with 'American Idiot' winning a Grammy for Best Rock Album. The band had also changed their image. They stopped dyeing their hair pink and green, and began wearing eyeliner and black clothes with red ties onstage.
In 2005, Green Day went on a world tour to promote their new album. It was the longest tour of their career and lasted 150 dates, including shows in England, Australia, Japan and South America. Recording the two shows at England's Milton Keanes National Bowl, Green Day released this as a DVD called 'Bullet in a Bible' (2005), including behind the scenes footage of the band which was voted 'Best Show on Earth' by Kerrang! magazine. At the 2005 MTV Awards, they won a total of seven of the eight awards for which they were nominated.
In 2006, they won another Grammy Award for Record of the Year in recognition of their success with 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams' from the 'American Idiot' (2004) album. The single spent 16 weeks at number one on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks.
From January 2006, Green Day had been working on new material and had written 45 songs by October 2007. As the band had to choose and record the tracks for the album, '21st Century Breakdown' was not released until 15 May 2009 - the longest ever gap between albums for the band.
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