Leave feedback, Billie Joe, who is ranked one of the 10 of the most influential people in punk rock music, was born on February 17, 1972 in Rodeo, California, as the youngest of 6 children.

I think that that’s the thing that actually ends up transcending.”, Some hits have come to him in five minutes, others take longer. “I said, ‘How do you write a song?’ ” says the Green Day singer-guitarist, 47, at his studio in Oakland. Cool, his bandmate and friend of three decades, once described him as “gifted and tormented. Add image 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 fury Some user-contributed text on this page is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. Let us know what you think of the Last.fm website. A new version of Last.fm is available, to keep everything running smoothly, please reload the site. We want to hear from you! When he was 14 years old he formed a band with his friend Mike Dirnt called Sweet Children which would eventually change its name to Green Day. Let us know what you think of the Last.fm website. “You feel like, ‘Oh, my God, am I ever going to write another song again?’ Then, all of a sudden, something pops up and you go from feeling like a loser to king of the world.”, In This Article: His mother was a waitress at a restaurant called Rod's Hickory Pit. Send us a tip using our anonymous form.

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We don’t have any upcoming events for this artist right now. Which is par for the course, because nobody digs deeper than Billie.”, In conversation, Armstrong is friendly, but also a little reserved, taking long pauses between answers about his process. He recently finished a song he’s been tinkering with since 1993. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. When he…, Billie Joe, who is ranked one of the 10 of the most influential people in punk rock music, was born on February 17, 1972 in Rodeo, California, as the youngest of 6 children. His father, Andy, was a jazz musician and a truck driver for Safeway, who passed away of oesophagous cancer, in September 1982. Billie Joe Armstrong (born February 17, 1972) is the lead singer, songwriter, guitarist, and co-founder of the punk-rock band Green Day. His three-chord anthems about growing up — with all the loneliness, anxiety, drug use, and masturbation that can come along the way — resonated with a generation on 1994’s diamond-certified Dookie and beyond. © Copyright 2020 Rolling Stone, LLC, a subsidiary of Penske Business Media, LLC. He tends to be really political in his music and he has identified himself as bisexual.

Billie Joe was only 10 years old. As soon as he started to talk he also began to sing and went to hospitals and sang to patients to cheer them up! Scrobbling is when Last.fm tracks the music you listen to and automatically adds it to your music profile. Billie’s brain is like 18 tape recorders playing simultaneously in a circle. Billie Joe Armstrong, Green Day, My Life in 15 Songs. Other projects like 2004’s Grammy award-winning Punk Rock opera American Idiot and 2009’s 21st Century Breakdown have made Billie Joe and Green Day a rock icon. Then he tries to have a conversation … and he’ll be looking you in the eye going, ‘Huh?’ ”, “Fuck him!” Armstrong says now, with a laugh, after hearing that quote. Connect your Spotify account to your Last.fm account and scrobble everything you listen to, from any Spotify app on any device or platform. “I don’t want to sound like a baboon,” he says, stopping himself at one point.

As many songs as he’s written, he still gets anxious when he hasn’t written one in a while. He is also vocalist and guitarist for the band Pinhead Gunpowder, and vocalist for Green Day’s side projects Foxboro Hot Tubs and The Network. 159 more photos, Add image And in February, 30 years into their career, Green Day will unveil an exciting new sound on their 13th album, Father of All … Armstrong says it comes from going on a soul kick — Motown, Prince, Amy Winehouse, and others — and “putting it through the Green Day filter.” On the title track, he sings in falsetto while drummer Tré Cool pounds out a wild, Mitch Mitchell-style beat that Armstrong calls “one of the most insane things he’s ever played.”, “Billie was pushing himself to get to a newer place,” bassist Mike Dirnt says. “All he said was, ‘It’s verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, verse, chorus — mix it up any way you want.’ ” Pretty soon, that was all Armstrong could think about.

“What does he know?” But Armstrong admits that he’s not quite sure how his brain works when it comes to songwriting.

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“When people find a deep connection, it’s because you’re trying to find your own connection inside of yourself. His father, Andy, was a jazz musician and a truck driver for Safeway, who passed away of oesophagous cancer, in September 1982. Billie Joe's first song was "Look For Love". His father, Andy, was a jazz musician and a truck driver for Safeway, who passed away of oesophagous cancer, in Septemb…, Billie Joe, who is ranked one of the 10 of the most influential people in punk rock music, was born on February 17, 1972 in Rodeo, California, as the youngest of 6 children. Billie Joe Armstrong (born February 17, 1972) is the lead singer, songwriter, guitarist, and co-founder of the punk-rock band Green Day. Billie Joe came to light in the music scene with Green Day’s 1994 Diamond certified and Grammy award-winning Dookie. Billie Joe Armstrong (born February 17, 1972) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor. Billie Joe was only 10 years old. The Green Day frontman tells the stories behind his biggest classics, from punk squats in West Oakland to worldwide fame, broken hearts, and political fury, Billie Joe Armstrong at Webster Hall in New York, Oct. 8, 2016, Billie Joe Armstrong remembers asking his guitar teacher a question that would change his life. Go directly to shout page. His mother was a waitress at …. Whether he’s writing punk songs or a politically powered rock opera, Armstrong has the same rules: “It’s so important to try and be as honest as you possibly can with your audience,” he says.