[pic=1994 BBC Radio Sessions]020313_bbc1992.jpg[/pic]In celebration of Dookie's nineteenth anniversary this past week, this week's [turl=http://www.greendayauthority.com/news/tags/download-of-the-week/]Download of the Week[/turl] is Green Day's 1994 BBC Radio Session.

On August 6, 1994 Green Day stopped into BBC Radio in London to record a "BBC Session" in promotion of Dookie which came out earlier in the year. The band performed four songs "Basket Case," "She," "When I Come Around" and "2,000 Light Years Away." The four mp3 files round out to 14mb, the smallest Download of the Week that we've had to date. So, if you're new to Download of the Week, this download might be the perfect "sampler" download for you!

Head on over to our [turl=http://www.greendayauthority.com/downloads/]downloads section[/turl] to get this week's Download of the Week. Have a suggestion for what could be the next Download of the Week? Send an email to jimmy@greendayauthority.com!
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Green Day's documentary ¡Cuatro!, the making of the trilogy, makes its full debut tonight in Aspen, CO at the X-Games. It will be shown at the Wheeler Opera house, starting at 8pm (Mountain Time), and will be followed with a Q&A with Green ... read story
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