Rock and roll keeps a lot of stars eternally young. Even though you can recognize the lines on the faces of veterans like Mick Jagger, Bruce Springsteen, Robert Plant and Ozzy Osbourne, their passion for the music makes you forget how old they are (just look at Jagger's performance at last weekend's Grammy Awards or Osbourne's just-released music video for "Let It Die" for proof). So even though Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong turns 39 years old today (which is not especially old, of course), he still remains a spunky 20-year-old kid in the eyes of anybody who has ever cranked up American Idiot.
Armstrong grew up in Rodeo, California with his five older siblings. He got into music early, as his father was a jazz musician and his older brothers were all on top of the first wave of punk rock. At age 10, he met fellow Rodeo resident Mike Dirnt,...
Armstrong grew up in Rodeo, California with his five older siblings. He got into music early, as his father was a jazz musician and his older brothers were all on top of the first wave of punk rock. At age 10, he met fellow Rodeo resident Mike Dirnt,...
- 2/17/2011
- by Kyle Anderson
- MTV Newsroom
A band that started off their mainstream career fighting off allegations of "selling out," Green Day are now at the beginning of a long road of selling their first video game. Like the Beatles, Van Halen, and Aerosmith the boys from Berkeley have to convince gamers that their catalog is worth consuming as an interactive experience.
It's almost a safe bet that the game's track list will be more International Superhits and less Shenanigans but that doesn't mean that some of their deep cuts aren't worthy of being on the disc. Here's ten of the best options:
Christie Road
Original Album: Kerplunk
Length: 3:33
The guys slow things down a little bit with "Christie Road," one of the longest tracks on 1992's Kerplunk, as they sing about being bored, lonely and escaping to the tracks at Christie Road because "it’s home, it's home." While Billie Joe's voice remains fairly monotone throughout the track,...
It's almost a safe bet that the game's track list will be more International Superhits and less Shenanigans but that doesn't mean that some of their deep cuts aren't worthy of being on the disc. Here's ten of the best options:
Christie Road
Original Album: Kerplunk
Length: 3:33
The guys slow things down a little bit with "Christie Road," one of the longest tracks on 1992's Kerplunk, as they sing about being bored, lonely and escaping to the tracks at Christie Road because "it’s home, it's home." While Billie Joe's voice remains fairly monotone throughout the track,...
- 12/18/2009
- by Jason Cipriano
- MTV Multiplayer
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