Billie Joe Armstrong (born February 17, 1972) is an American musician who is the lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter of the rock band Green Day, which he co-founded with Mike Dirnt in 1987. He died of esophageal cancer on September 10, 1982. The song "Wake Me Up When September Ends" is a memorial to his father. He has five older siblings: David, Alan, Marci, Hollie, and Anna. His mother worked at Rod's Hickory Pit restaurant in El Cerrito.
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How did Billie Joe Armstrong get lean between 2001-2002? Discussion Archived post. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. 669 Sort by: Kinghummingbird • 1 yr. ago doing someone else's cocaine 826 cometkeeper00 • 1 yr. ago He literally says it in many songs. Is this question real? 89 BurtDickinson • 1 yr. ago VDOMDHTMLtml> Building Billie Joe Armstrong's Guitar 'Blue' - Alegree Idolcaster S1 E2 - YouTube Billie Joe Armstrong is famous for being the singer and guitarist of pop punk. Billie Joe Armstrong: My Life in 15 Songs. The Green Day frontman tells the stories behind his biggest classics, from punk squats in West Oakland to worldwide fame, broken hearts, and political. He died of esophageal cancer on September 10, 1982. The song "Wake Me Up When September Ends" is a memorial to his father. He has five older siblings: David, Alan, Marci, Hollie, and Anna. His mother worked at Rod's Hickory Pit restaurant in El Cerrito.
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Green Day is an American rock band formed in the East Bay of California in 1987 by lead vocalist and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, together with bassist and backing vocalist Mike Dirnt. Before the release of Dookie put him on the rock star treadmill of tour bus bunks and five-star hotels, Billie Joe Armstrong lived in the basement of a dilapidated student house in the Californian college town of Berkeley. Blink 182 performing at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View Calif. on April 27th, 2002.. Billie Joe Armstrong from Green Day, who famously sung in a British accent. Billie Joe was 10 years old when his life would change forever - and in more ways than one. His early musical recitals came to untimely and tragic end as Andrew lost his battle with oesophageal.
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Billie Joe Armstrong currently has a signature guitar made by Gibson after his current number one guitar, a 1955 Les Paul Junior, single-cutaway with an Antiquity P-90 pickup that he. Devastated, Armstrong locked himself in his room and refused to come out, telling his mother: "Wake me up when September ends." Billie Joe Armstrong in a recording studio at the age of 7 with his parents. That was in 1982, and 20 years later (as referenced in the song's lyrics, "20 years have come and passed"), Armstrong used that line from his childhood to craft one of the seminal.
Billie Joe Armstrong. Born: 17-Feb-1972 Birthplace: Oakland, CA Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Bisexual Occupation: Musician Nationality: United States Executive summary: Frontman for Green Day Frontman for the band primarily responsible for resurrecting punk as a major label money-maker in the 1990s, Billie Joe Armstrong started off his life in the small, bayside. 1 He's probably one of the first blue collar punks As well as being a budding jazz musician, Billie Joe's father, Andy Armstrong, was also a truck driver for Safeway Inc. It was his dad's.
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Billie Joe was the youngest of Andy and Ollie Armstrong's six children (in addition to David and Anna, there were older sisters Holly and Marci and older brother Allen, who, at 22, had already. Billie Joe Armstrong (Saviors, American Idiot, Dookie) is a musician and lead vocalist of the rock band Green Day. Billie joins the Armchair Expert to discuss what it's like to have a brother 20 years older than him, the evolution of punk music, and his songwriting process. Billie and Dax talk about what it's like to move into a big city.
