Green Day's punk-pop band achieved major success with their third album, Dookie, released in 1994 by Reprise Records. Previously, the group had already released two albums - 39/Smooth (1990) and Kerplunk (1992) - on Lookout! Records, an independent record label.
Formed in 1988 in Berkeley, California, by vocalist and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt and drummer Al Sobrante (he left shortly after the release of their first album, leaving the place for Tre Cool), Green Day, which Initially named Sweet Children, it became one of the main groups of so-called melodic punk alongside other bands that also formed in the 1980s, such as The Offspring, Bad Religion, Pennywise and Rancid.
Following the great success of Dookie, the group released the albums Insomniac (1995), Nimrod (1997) and Warning (2000). In 2004, the band released their seventh studio album, the rock opera American Idiot. The album was well received by music critics, in addition to winning several awards, including the Grammy in 2005, in the Best Rock Album category. Its successor, 21st Century Breakdown (also a rock opera) came out in 2009.
In April 2012, vocalist Billie Joe Armstrong announced that the group would release a trilogy of albums that year titled ¡Uno!, ¡Dos! and ¡Tré!. ¡Uno! came out in September, ¡Dos! in November and ¡Tré!. Revolution Radio, Green Day's twelfth studio album, arrived in 2016. In 2020, the band returned with Father of All Motherfuckers. A new work, Saviors, arrived in 2024.
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