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 Green Day - punk rock band was formed in 1987 on the initiative of the vocalist and guitarist Billy Joe Armstrong and bassist Mike Dirnt in Rodeo, California in the United States. At the beginning of the group's activity, the drummer was Al Sobrante. After the release of "1,039 / Smoothed Out Slappy Hours" in 1991, he abandoned the team for college education. Tre Cool came in his place. In 1994, the band released the album "Dookie", which turned out to be a great success (15 million records sold worldwide).

 In 2004, the group released an album called punk-opera by critics - "American Idiot", whose global sales amounted to 14 million records, including 10 million in the USA. In the lyrics, Billie Joe criticizes George Bush's government. The album was created accidentally, as the material for the next album Green Day - "Cigarettes and Valentines" - was stolen from the recording studio. Three out of five singles from this album placed at the top of the Modern Rock list, and the most famous - "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" - ranked second on the Billboard Hot 100 list.  On July 27, 2007, the premiere of "The Simpsons" with Green Day took place in the United States.


Current team:

Billie Joe Armstrong - lead vocal, guitar, keyboards, oral harmonica (since 1986) 

Mike Dirnt - bass guitar, supporting vocal (since 1988), guitar (1986-1988) 

Tré Cool - drums, percussion instruments, supporting vocal (since 1990) 


 The meeting between future band musicians took place in the bar. Mike and Billie were 10 years old and they are the best friends ever since. They both did not have an easy life: Mike grew up in an orphanage, and later in a foster family, while Billie experienced the death of his beloved father - incidentally jazz music. Later, he even gave him the song "Rotting". One of the most important memorabilia of his father was the guitar he gave to Billie just before he died. Mike often stayed at Billi's house. Then they started to get interested in music, and older brothers Billy gave them cassettes with recordings of punk bands such as: Ramones, Sex Pistols or Buzzcocks. By saving money, they could buy decent guitars after some time. Then Billie won his beloved Stratocaster, where he plays to this day.

 At the same time, Frank Edwin Wright III (Tré Cool) was raised in Frankfurt am Main. His neighbor and a good friend was Lawrence Livermore himself. After the Green Day tour, the band left Al Sobrante because he stated that "he can not run around the stage for the rest of his life". He was replaced by Tre Cool, who to this day is the most characteristic member of the band, known for his intriguing statements and behaviors. In 1992, Green Day recorded the CD Kerplunk !. It was an unusual album, because the last four songs came from the single "Sweet Children" released three years earlier. Nevertheless, the album enjoyed considerable interest, also from the large Warner label. The concert tour was made with greater impetus and also included Europe, including Poland. Green Day visited Białystok, Gryfino and Bydgoszcz, and supported the Sink team.








 







 







 








 

Music - the art of organizing sound structures in time. One of the fields of fine arts that affects the human psyche through sounds.

 Rock - a genre of entertainment music created in the mid-twentieth century in the United States (who created around himself a circle of youth subculture and the general name of many styles of music, derived from rock and roll and blues). The name "rock" is an abbreviation of "rock and roll", although these two concepts can be considered as different musical genres.

 All rock styles are characterized by sounds based on different types of guitars (usually electric, electric bass) and drums, with a distinct rhythm and singing, derived from blues, and the way of free improvisation while playing songs, derived from jazz. An important feature of rock music, absent in classical music, is teamwork in the process of creation; music is in fact created in a group and difficult to play, when it is not played by an original band, it is also often composed in a group.

  I'm from Poland so i want to tell something about my country in this topic. Polish rock music, initially identified with rock and roll, and euphemistically called "big beat" for political reasons, appeared sporadically in the stages after October 1956 as a manifestation of a "thaw" that partially lifted the ban on Western music in socialist realism, this jazz and rock and roll. In 1957, the dixieland Krakow band of S. "Drążek" Kalwiński presented hits from the repertoire of B. Hayley and Elvis Presley performed by the Polish-Canadian singer J. Jaworska-Rogers.


  







 




 








 

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