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Billie Joe ArmstrongEmily Marshall-Conley

Music AppreciationKACCC


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Childhood Born on February 17, 1972

Green eyes

Billie Joe was the youngest of 6 children Everyone in his family had some sort of musical talent, but he was the one that

stood out from the rest.

At the age of 5 he recorded his first song, Look For Love.

Billie got his first electric guitar when he was 11 from his father.

At the age of 10 Billie Joe and Mike met in the school cafeteria.

They became very close and played guitar together during sleepovers at each

others houses.

In 1987 they started the band Sweet Children with drummer John Kiffmeyer.

When he was 18 Billie decided that he need to drop out of high school to followhis dream of playing music.


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Family

His father died of cancer when he was 10, and his mother quickly remarried.

Married wife Adrienne on July 2, 1994

Had son Joseph Marciano in March of 1995

Three years later they had son Jakob Danger September 1998

They live in Berkeley, CA.


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Green Day Green Day was started by Billie Joe and Mike Dirnt. They later added Tre Cool after

their original drummer left for college. This punk bad was started in the late 1980s.


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Members of Green Day

Billie Joe Armstrong

Lead Vocals & Guitar

Mike Dirnt

Bass

Tre Cool

Drums


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Albums 39/Smooth (1990)

Kerplunk (1992)

Dookie (1994)

Insomniac (1995)

Nimrod (1997)

Warning (2000)

American Idiot (2004)

21st Century Breakdown (2009)


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Songs Wake Me Up When September Ends This song has a lot of meaning to it

because it talks about the war and soldiers and the sacrifices.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU9JoFKlaZ0&feature=artistob&playnext=1&li

st=TLJIJwq1FCH1U

Boulevard of Broken Dreams I love this song because it is about how you

cant really rely on other people. You have yourself and thats it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kpHmtA7LOk&feature=fvsr

Longview Talks about how you wants things to be a certain way but you have

to make them that way.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy5XR-oxCus

American Idiot This song is about how Americas government has been

corrupted and its people.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkmEZs_Kcms

Basket Case

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUTGr5t3MoY

Poprocks and Cokehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOdG-_-rUHw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU9JoFKlaZ0&feature=artistob&playnext=1&list=TLJIJwq1FCH1Uhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU9JoFKlaZ0&feature=artistob&playnext=1&list=TLJIJwq1FCH1Uhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kpHmtA7LOk&feature=fvsrhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy5XR-oxCushttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkmEZs_Kcmshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUTGr5t3MoYhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOdG-_-rUHwhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOdG-_-rUHwhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOdG-_-rUHwhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOdG-_-rUHwhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOdG-_-rUHwhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOdG-_-rUHwhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUTGr5t3MoYhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUTGr5t3MoYhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkmEZs_Kcmshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkmEZs_Kcmshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy5XR-oxCushttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy5XR-oxCushttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy5XR-oxCushttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy5XR-oxCushttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kpHmtA7LOk&feature=fvsrhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kpHmtA7LOk&feature=fvsrhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU9JoFKlaZ0&feature=artistob&playnext=1&list=TLJIJwq1FCH1Uhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU9JoFKlaZ0&feature=artistob&playnext=1&list=TLJIJwq1FCH1Uhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU9JoFKlaZ0&feature=artistob&playnext=1&list=TLJIJwq1FCH1U


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References Google.com for pictures

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0035626/bio http://www.greendayauthority.com/band/billie.php
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