The Green Day Authority
For 25 years · Since July 2001
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All this week, Gibson.com is counting down the top 50 American bands on their website. They posted bands 41-50 today and Green Day has come in at number 50. Other bands of note in the 41-50 range include The Strokes, Alice Cooper, Cheap Trick, and Kings of ...
In the upcoming August edition of Guitar World Magazine, Billie Joe will be discussing the Cheap Trick song "Surrender" as a part of Guitar World's "100 Greatest Classic Rock Guitar Songs" issue. In the past Green Day has covered "Surrender" during their live ...
On behalf of the whole GDA team I would like to wish our webmaster, Andres, a very happy 25th birthday! Without Andres this site would never run as smoothly and successfully as it does today. David, Andres, Courtney, J'net, Jimmy, and Tony at a meet up in New ...
With the news that Billie Joe might play St. Jimmy in the upcoming American Idiot movie, we've had a lot of feedback from you guys about this. So, here's a poll to see how many of you would like to see him in the role. If you'd like to expand on why you voted ...
Rolling Stone has a list of 40 "Dads Who Rock", and included Billie Joe in the mix. He's listed between Paul McCartney and Rod Stewart. He's #19, but I don't believe the list is ranked (how could you rank who was a better dad...), but rather just a list of 40 ...
An article from a local Washington newspaper recently talked about the connection their town Longview has with Green Day. The town of 34,000 is known because it shares a name with one of Green Day's most popular songs, which was released in 1994, and it's ...
A couple official Green Day songbooks are now available for download from the US iTunes Store, including American Idiot Musical: Guitar Tab, American Idiot Musical: Vocal and Piano, and Green Day: Guitar Tab Anthology which features some of the band's greatest ...
Contrary to a recent report, the St. Jimmy part in the upcoming American Idiot movie is unconfirmed, as per Bille Joe's latest tweet: Haven't totally committed to St Jimmy for AI movie. Yes, I'm interested. Yes someone jumped the gun.. Who jumped the St. Jimmy ...