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Green Day In First MTV Interview: More Skater Kids Than Rock Gods

Band still seems to be grappling with sudden popularity in 1994 chat.By James Montgomery Green Day's Mike Dirnt and Billie Joe Armstrong in 1994 Photo: MTV News It was back in 1994. August 3, to be exact. MTV News' first-ever interview with Green Day. The guys were still fresh-faced and scruffy, still trying to figure out how to deal with the fame that their Dookie album had brought them and — perhaps most importantly — still touring aboard their customized Book Mobile (complete ...

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09:44 on May 12 2009

Green Day Find A Reason To Rage, Even In Obama's America

MTV.com News — 'I think we're actually in a worse situation,' Billie Joe Armstrong says.By James Montgomery, with reporting by Kim Stolz Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong Photo: MT... more info
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10:51 on May 12 2009

Green Day In First MTV Interview: More Skater Kids Than Rock Gods

MTV.com News — Band still seems to be grappling with sudden popularity in 1994 chat.By James Montgomery Green Day's Mike Dirnt and Billie Joe Armstrong in 1994 Photo: MTV News ... more info
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06:32 on May 12 2009

Franz explain Green Day tour

BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat — Singer Alex Kapranos explains how the link up with the American mega band came about. more info
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09:35 on May 12 2009

‘Dookie Loomed Over Us' Say Green Day

XFM.co.uk — The punk superstars admit that moving on from the staggering success of their third record prove difficult. more info
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10:51 on May 12 2009

Green Day In First MTV Interview: More Skater Kids Than Rock Gods

VH1 News — Green Day were more skater kids than rock gods in their first-ever MTV News interview. The trio seemed to be grappling with their sudden popularity in the 1994 chat. more info
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12:01 on May 12 2009

'21st Century Breakdown' Proves Green Day Have Become Everything They Used To Hate

NME - Notes From The Underground — So, Green Day are back, are they? With yet another rock opera about How The World Is A Bit Messed Up And Stuff And How America Is, Like, Evil? Well put my hair in gelled-... more info
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02:20 on May 13 2009

Listen To Green Day's New Album Before It's Released

Starpulse — Green Day will release 21st Century Breakdown, the long awaited follow-up to American Idiot, on Friday May 15th. The album, produced by Butch Vig (Nirvana, AFI, Smashing ... more info
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14:39 on May 12 2009

Green Day gets conceptual again on latest disc

Topix — Green Day, "21st Century Breakdown" If you thought Green Day couldn't be any more ambitious than their Grammy-winning 2004 disc "American Idiot," well, you'd be wrong a '... more info
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