Billie Joe Armstrong

Billie Joe Armstrong (born February 17, 1972)[1] is an At the age of 10, Armstrong met Mike Dirnt in the school
American musician, singer, songwriter and actor who is cafeteria and they immediately bonded over their love of
best known as the lead vocalist, primary songwriter, and music.[4] He became interested in punk rock after being
guitarist of the punk rock band Green Day, which he co- introduced to punk rock by his brothers.[6] Armstrong has
founded with Mike Dirnt. He is also a guitarist and vocal- also cited Minneapolis-based bands The Replacements
ist for the punk rock band Pinhead Gunpowder and pro- and Hsker D as major musical inuences. Armstrong
vides lead vocals for Green Days side projects Foxboro and Mike Dirnt's rst live performance under the name
Hot Tubs and The Network. Green Day was in Davis, a town approximately an hours
Raised in Rodeo, California, Armstrong developed an in- drive northeast of the San Francisco Bay area.
terest in music at a young age, and recorded his rst song Along with Hillcrest Elementary, Armstrong attended
at the age of ve. He met Mike Dirnt while attending el- Carquinez Middle School and John Swett High School,
ementary school, and the two instantly bonded over their both in Crockett, and later transferred to Pinole Valley
mutual interest in music, forming the band Sweet Chil- High School in Pinole. On his 18th birthday (February
dren when the two were 15 years old. The band changed 17, 1990), he dropped out to pursue his musical career.
its name to Green Day, and would later achieve massive
commercial success. Armstrong has also pursued musical
projects outside of Green Days work, including numer-
ous collaborations with other musicians.
2 Career
In 1997, to coincide with the release of Nimrod, Arm-
strong founded Adeline Records in Oakland to help sup-
2.1 Early career
port other bands releasing music and signed bands such
as The Frustrators, AFI and Dillinger Four. The record
company has since come under the management of Pat
Magnarella.[2]

1 Early life

Billie Joe Armstrong was born in Oakland, California[3]

and raised in nearby Rodeo, the youngest of six children
of Andrew Andy Armstrong and Ollie Jackson.[4] His
father worked as a jazz musician and truck driver for
Safeway Inc. to support his family. He died of esophageal
cancer[4] on September 10, 1982, when Armstrong was
10. The song "Wake Me Up When September Ends" is a
memorial to his father. He has ve older siblings: David,
Alan, Marci, Hollie, and Anna. His mother worked at
Rods Hickory Pit[4] restaurant in El Cerrito, where Arm-
strong and Dirnt played their rst gig in 1987. Arm-
strong is of Scotch-Irish, English, Scottish, Italian (Sicil-
ian), Spanish, German, and Welsh descent.
Armstrongs interest in music started at a young age. He
attended Hillcrest Elementary School in Rodeo, where Armstrong performing in 1994
a teacher encouraged him to record a song titled Look
for Love at the age of ve on the Bay Area label Fiat In 1986, aged 14, Armstrong formed a band called Sweet
Records.[4][5] After his father died, his mother married a Children with his childhood friend Mike Dirnt. In the
man whom her children disliked, which resulted in Arm- beginning, Dirnt and Armstrong both played guitar, with
strongs further retreat into music. John Kimeyer, also known as Al Sobrante, on drums,[7]

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2 2 CAREER

and Sean Hughes on bass. After a few performances, on $1,200 bail.[11]

Hughes left the band in 1988; Dirnt then began playing
bass and they became a three-piece band. They changed
their name to Green Day in April 1989, choosing the
name because of their fondness for marijuana.[8]
In 1989, Armstrong provided lead guitar and backing vo-
cals on three songs for The Lookouts' nal EP IV.
That same year, Green Day released their debut EP 1,000
Hours through Lookout! Records. They recorded their
debut studio album 39/Smooth and the extended play
Slappy in 1990, which were later combined with 1,000
Hours into the compilation 1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy
Hours in 1991.
Tr Cool became Green Days drummer in late 1990 after
Sobrante left in order to go to college. Cool made his
debut on Green Days second album, Kerplunk (1991).
In 1993, Armstrong played live several times with Cali-
fornia punk band Rancid. Rancid lead singer, Tim Arm-
strong, asked Billie Joe Armstrong to join his band, but
he refused owing to the progress with Green Day. How-
ever, Billie Joe Armstrong was credited as a co-writer on
Rancids 1993 song, Radio.

2.2 Dookie and mainstream success

With their next album, Dookie (1994), the band broke

through into the mainstream, and have remained one of
the most popular rock bands of the 1990s and 2000s with
over 60 million records sold worldwide.[9]
In 2004, Green Day debuted American Idiot, their rst
2.3 2000-present: continued success, col- rock opera. The album has sold more than 15,000,000
copies worldwide, fueled by the hit singles "American Id-
laborations and musical theater iot", "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" and "Wake Me Up
When September Ends".[12] In 2009 Green Day released
Armstrong has collaborated with many artists. He co- 21st Century Breakdown, the bands second rock opera,
wrote The Go-Gos 2001 song "Unforgiven". He has which was another commercial success.[13]
also co-written songs with Penelope Houston (The An-
gel and The Jerk and New Day), and sung backing vo- In 2009, American Idiot was turned into a musical on
[14]
cals with Melissa Auf der Maur on Ryan Adams' Do Broadway, also called American Idiot. The musical
Miss America (where they acted as the backing band won two Tony Awards. Armstrong appeared in American
for Iggy Pop on his Skull Ring album (Private Hell and Idiot in the role of St. Jimmy twice, in late 2010[15][16]
[17]
Supermarket)). Armstrong produced an album for The and early 2011.
Riverdales. He was part of the side project The Network, In 2013, Armstrong appeared on Season 3 of NBCs
which existed from 2003 to 2005 and released the album The Voice as an assistant mentor for Christina Aguilera's
Money Money 2020. team.[18]
Hoping to clear his head and develop new ideas for songs, Armstrong wrote songs for These Paper Bullets, a rock
Armstrong traveled to New York City alone for a few musical adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing. The Yale
weeks, renting a small apartment in the East Village of Repertory Theater premiered the show in March 2014.[19]
Manhattan.[10] He spent much of this time taking long
walks and participating in jam sessions in the basement Armstrong also collaborated with the comedy hip hop
of Hi-Fi, a bar in Manhattan.[11] However, the friends group Lonely Island in their song I Run [20] NY from The
he made during this time drank too much for his lik- Wack Album released on June 7, 2013. He starred
ing, which was the catalyst for Armstrongs return to the alongside Leighton Meester in the 2014 lm Like Sunday,
[21]
Bay Area. [11]
After returning home, Armstrong was ar- Like Rain.
rested on DUI charges on January 5, 2003, and released In 2013, Armstrong and singer-songwriter Norah Jones

released the album Foreverly, consisting of covers of
songs from The Everly Brothers' album Songs Our Daddy
Taught Us.[22] The rst single from the album, Long
Time Gone, was released on October 23.
In 2014 Armstrong joined The Replacements for a num-
ber of shows beginning on April 19 at Coachella. Front-
man Paul Westerberg had been suering with back prob-
lems and spent the majority of the gig lying on a sofa
while Armstrong helped play his parts. Westerberg re-
ferred to Billie Joe as an expansion of the band.[23]
Armstrong joined The Replacements on stage again at the
Shaky Knees music festival in Atlanta in May.[24]
In November 2014 Armstrong moved with his son Joseph
to New York[25] and began working on another acting
role, in the lm Ordinary World. It will be Armstrongs
rst lead acting role, and centers on the mid-life crisis of a
husband and father who attempts to revisit his punk past.
The lm will include new songs written and performed by
Armstrong.[26][27]
Armstrong performing in 2013
3 Instruments
Armstrongs rst guitar was a Cherry Red Hohner acous-
tic, which his father bought for him. He then received
his rst electric guitar, a Fernandes Stratocaster that he
named Blue when he was ten. His mother got Blue
3
Armstrong performing with Blue in 2009
from George Cole who taught Armstrong electric guitar
for 10 years. Armstrong says in a 1995 MTV interview,
Basically, it wasn't like guitar lessons because I never re-
ally learned how to read music. So he just taught me how
to put my hands on the thing. Cole bought the guitar new
from David Margen of the band Santana. Cole gave Arm-
strong a Bill Lawrence L500XL Humbucker pickup and
told him to install the pickup in the bridge position. Arm-
strong switch the pickup with white Seymour Duncan 59
Humbucker model in Woodstock '94. After the pickup
was destroyed, Armstrong then use back original pickup
in November 1994 and replaced with Seymour Duncan
SH-4 JB in 1995 until today, and also Armstrong used
Seymour Duncan Zebra Humbucker model in 2011 until
2013. Armstrong fetishized his teachers guitar, partly
because the blue instrument had a sound quality and Van
Halen-worthy uidity he couldn't get from his little red
Hohner. He prized it mostly, however, because of his re-
lationship with Cole, another father gure after the death
of Andy.[28] He toured with this guitar from the bands
early days and still uses it to this day.[29] Blue also ap-
pears in a number of its music videos such as "Longview",
"Basket Case", "Geek Stink Breath", "Stuck with Me",
"Brain Stew/Jaded", "Hitchin' a Ride", and most recently
in "Minority".
Today, Armstrong mainly uses Gibson and Fender gui-
tars. Twenty of his Gibson guitars are Les Paul Junior
models from the mid- to late-1950s.[30] His Fender col-
lection includes: Stratocaster, Jazzmaster, Telecaster, a
Gretsch hollowbody, Rickenbacker 360 and his copies of
Blue from Fender Custom Shop, mostly after it was
destroyed, recently his black Telecaster guitar was gave
away to audience that used for backup of Blue. He
states that his favorite guitar is a 1956 Gibson Les Paul
Junior he calls Floyd. He bought this guitar in 2000 just
before recording their album Warning.[31]
4 4 PERSONAL LIFE
Armstrong performing in South American Tour with Blue copy
in 2010
Armstrong performing with Custom Painted Les Paul Junior in
2017
Armstrong also has two of his own Les Paul Junior sig-
nature models from Gibson. The rst has been in pro-
duction since 2006 and is modeled closely after Floyd,
Armstrongs original 1956 Les Paul Junior.[32] The sec-
ond began production in 2012 and is a TV Yellow double-
cutaway Junior. Both models include a Gibson H-90
pickup, exclusive to Armstrongs models. Gibson has also
released an extremely limited run of acoustic signature
guitars.
He plays several other instruments as well. He recorded
harmonica and mandolin parts in the past (Nimrod and
Warning), piano parts on 21st Century Breakdown (2009),
American Idiot: The Original Broadway Cast Recording
(2011) and Tr! (2012), and plays drums in live from
time to time.
4 Personal life
Armstrong met his rst serious girlfriend, Erica Paleno
(also known as Arica Pelino), inside the Gilman music
club on his sixteenth birthday. Erica became known as
the rst ocial Green Day fan as she listened to the
rst four-track recordings by Billie and Sean, encourag-
ing the band, touring with them and acting as occasional
photographer for the band.[33][34][35] Erica inspired many
of Green Days well known songs including Christie Road
which was written for her by Armstrong about the lo-
cal tracks where the couple would sneak out to and meet
at.[36] When Armstrong began living in punk houses and
warehouses at the age of seventeen, including the ware-
house above a West Oakland brothel which ultimately in-
spired the song Welcome to Paradise[37] Erica would
often stay with him despite the dangers, I would stay
with him sometimes in these warehouses full of crusty
punks.[37] The couple split in late 1991. Erica is the sis-
ter of former Green Day touring member (2004-2005)
Mike Pelino and sister-in-law of Janna White, wife of
Green Day guitarist Jason White.
Shortly after his split with Erica, Armstrong met a woman
he has identied only as Amanda at Gilman, and they
started dating. Amanda produced and distributed her
own zine and was an iron-willed feminist, which en-
thralled Armstrong.[38] Amanda, however, was unim-
pressed with Armstrong and though the couple dated for
some time she ultimately dumped him in 1994[39] and
joined the Peace Corps leaving Armstrong feeling suici-
dal. Armstrong stated in an interview with Spin about the
inspiration behind the Insomniac song Armitage Shanks
in 1995, It was right before Dookie came out and I was
really at odds with myself. I was like man do I really want
to do this? A lot of time I was thinking about suicide, how
its so easy to kill yourself, but its so hard to stay alive. I
was in a break-up with my then girlfriend, a total, raving
punk rocker who didn't approve of me being on a major
label. She moved down to Ecuador saying she couldn't
live in a world with McDonalds and such. It was fuck-
ing me up pretty bad.[40] Armstrong has written many
songs about Amanda, both during their relationship and
afterwards, including She, Good Riddance, Stuart
And The Ave, Sassafrass Roots, Amanda, Shes A
Rebel, Extraordinary Girl and Whatsername. The
hero, Whatsername, on the album American Idiot, and
in the American Idiot musical, is based on Amanda.[41]
In 1990, Armstrong met Adrienne Nesser (Steve Nesser's
sister) at one of Green Days early performances in Min-
neapolis, Minnesota. They married on July 2, 1994; the
day after their wedding, Adrienne discovered that she was
pregnant. Armstrongs son, Joseph Marciano Armstrong,
who was born on February 28, 1995, plays drums in a
Berkeley-based band named SWMRS. Billie Joes sec-
ond son Jakob Danger (born September 12, 1998) is a
guitarist and singer-songwriter who released his rst ma-
terial online in 2015. In a February 2014 interview with
4.4 Incidents 5

Rolling Stone Armstrong described how his sudden mar-

riage and having a son was mental[42] saying, I was
very impulsive at that time. I think that impulsive behav-
ior was meant to counteract the chaos in my life.[42]

4.1 Sexuality

Armstrong has identied himself as bisexual, saying in a

1995 interview with The Advocate, I think I've always
been bisexual. I mean, its something that I've always
been interested in. I think people are born bisexual, and
its just that our parents and society kind of veer us o
into this feeling of 'Oh, I can't.' They say its taboo. Its
ingrained in our heads that its bad, when its not bad at
all. Its a very beautiful thing.[43] In a later interview
for Out magazines April 2010 issue, Armstrong stated:
There were a lot of people who didn't accept it, who were
homophobic. Armstrong continued, saying, The fact
that its an issue is kind of phobic within itself. At some
point, you gotta think, this should be something thats just
accepted. Armstrong added: I don't really classify my-
self as anything. And when it comes to sex, there are parts
of me that are very shy and conservative.[44] In Febru-
ary 2014, Armstrong again discussed his bisexuality in a
Rolling Stone article about Dookie, a record which Arm-
strong described as touch[ing] on bisexuality a lot.[42]
Armstrong discussed the song Coming Clean stating,
It was a song about questioning myself. There are these Armstrong performing at the Fox Theatre in March 2013 during
other feelings you may have about the same sex, the oppo- Green Days rst show since Armstrong left rehab.
site sex, especially being in Berkeley and San Francisco
then. People are acting out what they're feeling: gay, bi-
sexual, transgender, whatever. And that opens up some- rst company to use mass-produced compostable bags
thing in society that becomes more acceptable. Now we and pods.[50]
have gay marriage becoming recognized... I think its a
process of discovery. I was willing to try anything. [42]
4.4 Incidents

4.2 Political views On September 21, 2012, during a Green Day perfor-
mance at Las Vegas' IHeartRadio music festival, Arm-
Armstrong supported Barack Obama during the 2008 and strong became agitated onstage and stopped the bands set
2012 presidential elections.[45][46] In the 2016 presidential midway through their performance of the 1994 hit song
election, Armstrong supported Bernie Sanders.[47] "Basket Case". In an expletive-lled rant, Armstrong crit-
icized the events promoters for allegedly cutting short
the bands performance before smashing his guitar and
storming o stage.[51] The band later issued a statement
4.3 Business ventures apologizing for the incident and clarifying that their set
had not actually been cut short.[52] The incident occurred
In 1997, Armstrong co-founded Adeline Records, a rock just four days prior to the release of Green Days ninth
and punk rock record label that is now managed by Pat studio album, Uno![53]
Magnarella, Green Days manager.[48]
On September 23, 2012, two days following the incident
In April 2015, Armstrong opened Broken Guitars, a gui- at the iHeartRadio Music Festival, Green Day announced
tar shop in Oakland, California with fellow Pinhead Gun-that Armstrong was seeking treatment for an unspeci-
powder member and longtime Green Day associate, Bill ed substance abuse problem.[54][55] As a result, sched-
Schneider.[49] uled appearances on Jimmy Kimmel Live and The Ellen
In December 2015, Armstrong along with Mike Dirnt, DeGeneres Show were canceled.[56] According to Clau-
launched a coee company, Oakland Coee Works. The dia Suarez Wright, Tre Cools ex-wife and the mother of
company sells organic coee beans and is said to be the Armstrongs godson, Armstrong had been drinking heav-
6 6 DISCOGRAPHY

ily in Las Vegas prior to the iHeartMusic Festival, follow- American Idiot: The Original Broadway Cast
ing approximately one year of sobriety.[57][58] Armstrong Recording (2010) vocals, guitar, piano
gave an interview to Rolling Stone in March 2013 in which
he admitted, I've been trying to get sober since 1997, Uno!(2012) lead vocals, guitar
[59]
right around Nimrod. Armstrong discussed how dur- Dos! (2012) lead vocals, guitar
ing the 21st Century Breakdown tour in 20092010,
There were meltdowns on that tour that were huge.[59] Tr! (2012) lead vocals, guitar, piano
Armstrong detailed his addiction and in particular how
it had escalated in the months prior to the release of the Revolution Radio (2016) lead vocals, guitar
Trilogy albums and the performance at iHeart stating that
during the summer while touring in Europe, I was at
my pill-taking height at that time, medicating the shit out 6.2 Pinhead Gunpowder
of myself.[60] Armstrong gave details of a gig at Irving
Plaza in New York just over a week before the iHeart in- Vocals and guitar on all
cident he Threw back four or ve beers before we went
on and probably had four or ve when we played. Then Jump Salty (1994)
I drank my body weight in alcohol after that. I ended
up hungover on the West Side Highway, laying in a little Carry the Banner (1995)
[60]
park. Green Day subsequently canceled all remaining Goodbye Ellston Avenue (1997)
concert dates for 2012 and early 2013 as Armstrong con-
tinued dealing with his personal problems.[61] In late De- Shoot the Moon (EP) (1999)
cember, the band announced they would return to tour-
ing at the end of March.[62] Armstrong later admitted that Compulsive Disclosure (2003)
the substances he had been abusing were alcohol and pre-
West Side Highway (EP) (2008)
scription pills for anxiety and insomnia.[63]

6.3 The Network

5 Awards
Money Money 2020 (2003) guitar, vocals
Main article: List of awards and nominations received
by Green Day
6.4 Foxboro Hot Tubs
Stop Drop and Roll!!! (2008) lead vocals[69]

6 Discography
6.5 With Norah Jones
6.1 Green Day
Foreverly (2013) guitar, vocals
Main article: Green Day discography
6.6 Swmrs
39/Smooth (1990) lead vocals, guitar This Kid. (Demo) (2008) production
Kerplunk! (1991) lead vocals, guitar, drums on
Goody Two Shoes (EP) (2009) production
Dominated Love Slave[66]
Broadcast This (EP) (2010) production
Dookie (1994) lead vocals, guitar, percussion on
All by Myself (hidden track) Regan MacNeil (EP) (2010) production
Insomniac (1995) lead vocals, guitar Don't Be a Dick (2011) production
Nimrod (1997) lead vocals, guitar, harmonica[67] Lost at Seventeen (2013) production
Warning (2000) lead vocals, mandolin, guitar,
Swim (EP) (2014) production
harmonica[68]
American Idiot (2004) lead vocals, guitar
6.7 The Boo
21st Century Breakdown (2009) lead vocals, gui-
tar, piano The Boo (EP) (2011) bass

6.8 Matt Grocott & The Shrives
Turn Me On (EP) (2015) bass
7 Filmography
7.1 Television
7.2 Video games
7.3 Stage
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