The Birth of Green Day’s “American Idiot” Musical

“American Idiot is a rock opera. But I was very self-conscious about it,” Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong told Rolling Stone’s David Fricke. “I didn’t want it to come across as pretentious. Someone said, ‘What is the influence?’ I said, ‘This record has more in common with Rocky Horror than Leonard Cohen.’ ” Armstrong might have [...]

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