About the band: Green Day is an American punk rock band formed in 1987. They released thirteen studio albums and sold more than 85 million records worldwide, making them one of the best-selling music artists of all time. Green Day currently have one song in my list of about 200 best pop/rock songs of all time.
About the song: this is a track from the amazing 2004 concept album American Idiot, easily one of the best albums of the century so far. More melodic than their previous work, the raw power is still present as well, which is evident in the hit single Boulevard of broken dreams, but above all in the beautiful ballad Wake me up when September ends, in which lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong tries to come to terms with the death of his father. Run time 4:45.
