Today marks the release of the very first biography of Green Day. Journalist Ben Myers, a punk from the Green Day generation himself, has had multiple opportunities over the years to interview the band. With as much expertise as enthusiasm, he chronicles the spectacular rise of Green Day. He tells how the vibrant punk scene of the Bay Area around San Francisco kept the three young musicians from going off the rails and how they eventually became stars.
The story of Green Day is actually a simple tale: three school friends grow up in Californian working-class neighborhoods and form a band - and subsequently sell more than fifty million albums. However, it wasn't quite that simple. Inspired by British punk icons like the Sex Pistols and American cult bands like the Dead Kennedys, the three key kids from Northern California who founded the band Green Day in 1989 had to fight hard to make their mark in a world dominated by the bland rock and pop of the American mainstream.
The book can be ordered at http://www.amazon.de.
Green Day Website: http://www.greenday.de
The story of Green Day is actually a simple tale: three school friends grow up in Californian working-class neighborhoods and form a band - and subsequently sell more than fifty million albums. However, it wasn't quite that simple. Inspired by British punk icons like the Sex Pistols and American cult bands like the Dead Kennedys, the three key kids from Northern California who founded the band Green Day in 1989 had to fight hard to make their mark in a world dominated by the bland rock and pop of the American mainstream.
The book can be ordered at http://www.amazon.de.
Green Day Website: http://www.greenday.de
