Green Day make punk lingua franca of the American suburbs

1 February 1994: Number 46 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of rock musicThough Green Day had long-established underground credentials, their decision to sign to Reprise opened the doors of middle America to punk rock. Their major label debut, Dookie, sold more than 16m copies worldwide, their cartoon personae translating perfectly to video. It also provided a leg up for a string of pop-punk bands – Blink 182, the Offspring, Good Charlotte, Sum 41 – to break into the charts....

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