Word: armstrong
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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PRODUCTION: Trang Ba Chuong, Theresa Kelliher, L. Rufino-Armstrong (Supervisors); Silvia Castaneda Contreras, Michael Dohne, Garry Hearne, Sandra Maupin, Michael Skinner...
...members of Green Day -- Billie Joe, bassist Mike Dirnt and drummer Tre Cool -- are in their early 20s. Billie Joe, who writes almost all the trio's lyrics, grew up in Berkeley, California (his given name is Billie Joe Armstrong). His father, a jazz musician, died when Billie Joe was 10; his mother is a waitress, and he is the youngest of six. "Mom gradually got less strict with each kid," admits Billie Joe, and that evolution in parenting style may help explain the anarchic themes in his lyrics and his carefree approach to music in general. "I still...
PRODUCTION: Trang Ba Chuong, Theresa Kelliher, L. Rufino-Armstrong (Supervisors); Silvia Castaneda Contreras, Michael Dohne, Garry Hearne, Sandra Maupin, Michael Skinner
...Christmas (My Two Front Teeth) sold 1.5 million copies in six weeks. Jones cinched his renown with a high-rated radio show and an exhaustive skein of one-night stands. Chester Gould and Al Kapp put him into their comic strips. Movies and TV beckoned. For a decade, Lindley Armstrong Jones was the maestro satirist of the Hit Parade -- and a crucial influence on such musicaliconoclasts as Stan Freberg, Ernie Kovacs, Tom Lehrer and Frank Zappa...
PRODUCTION: Trang Ba Chuong, Theresa Kelliher, L. Rufino-Armstrong (Supervisors); Silvia Castaneda Contreras, Michael Dohne, Garry Hearne, Sandra Maupin, Michael Skinner...