Green Day Band Bio

Green Day's story starts back in 1972, the year that all three members were born. Billie Joe Armstrong came into the world as the youngest of six kids born to a working-class family in Rodeo, California, an industrial town fifteen miles north of Berkeley. Billie's Dad was a truck driver and sometimes jazz musician who died when Billie Joe was just ten. Billie's Mom was a waitress and a diehard country music fan. At age eleven, …

…Superhits" with 19 hits stemming from Dookie to Warning. It came packed with 2 new tracks the super fast jam "Maria" and the romantic type tune "Pop Rocks and Coke". Also, with the release of "International Superhits" they released a DVD and VHS featuring music videos for most the songs on the album along with some special footage. The DVD is entitled "International Supervideos". The album hung in the Billboard 200 for 9 weeks with a peak position of 40.