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Ans: Billie Joe Armstrong was born in Alameda, California, and was raised in Rodeo, California, as the youngest of six children to Andrew "Andy" Armstrong[1] and Ollie Jackson.[1] His father worked as a jazz musician and truck driver for Safeway Inc. to support his family. He died of esophageal cancer on September 10, 1982, when his son Billie was ten years old.[1] The song "Wake Me Up When September Ends" is a memorial to his father. He has five older siblings: David, Alan, Marci, Hollie, and Anna. His mother worked at Rod's Hickory Pit.[1] Armstrong and Mike Dirnt got their first gig at Rod's Hickory Pit during their early years.
Armstrong's interest in music started at a young age. He attended Hillcrest Elementary School in Rodeo, where a teacher encouraged him to record a song titled "Look For Love" at the age of five on the Bay Area label "Fiat Records".[1][2] After his father died, his mother married a man whom her children disliked, which made Armstrong retreat further into music. Armstrong dedicated a song to him called "Why Do You Want Him".[1] At age 12 while attending Carquinez Middle School in nearby Crockett, California, he met Mike Dirnt, and they immediately bonded over their love of music.[1] He became interested in punk rock after hearing the Sex Pistols song "Holidays in the Sun".[3] Armstrong has also cited Minneapolis-based bands The Replacements and Hüsker Dü as major musical influences. Armstrong attended John Swett High School, also in Crockett, and later Pinole Valley High School, in Pinole, California, dropping out on February 16, 1990, one day before his 18th birthday, to pursue his musical career.
[edit] Career
In 1987, Armstrong formed a band called Sweet Children with childhood friend Mike Dirnt at the age of 15. In the beginning, Dirnt and Armstrong were both on guitar, with John Kiffmeyer, also known as Al Sobrante, on drums[4], and Sean Hughes on bass. After a few gigs and a demo recording (later featured at the end of Green Day's Kerplunk!) Hughes left the band in 1988. At the same time Dirnt switched to bass and they became a 3-piece band. They changed their name to Green Day in April 1989, allegedly choosing the name for their fondness of marijuana.[4] That same year they recorded the EPs 39/Smooth, 1,000 Hours, and Slappy, later combined into the LP 1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours, on Lookout! Records. Tré Cool eventually replaced Sobrante in late 1990 when he left Green Day in order to go to college. California Punk band Rancid's lead singer Tim Armstrong asked Billie Joe to join Rancid, but he refused due to the progress with Green Day. Tré Cool made his debut on Green Day's second album, Kerplunk!. 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.[5]
Apart from working with Green Day and side-band Pinhead Gunpowder, Armstrong has proved himself busy in the music world, collaborating with many artists over the years. He has co-written for The Go-Go's ("Unforgiven") and former Avengers singer Penelope Houston ("The Angel and The Jerk" and "New Day"), co-written a song with Rancid ("Radio"), and sung backing vocals with Melissa Auf der Maur on Ryan Adams' "Do Miss America" (where they acted as the backing band for Iggy Pop on his Skull Ring album ("Private Hell" and "Supermarket"). Armstrong has produced an album for The Riverdales, and has also been confirmed to be part of a side project called The Network. The Network released an album called Money Money 2020. Many Green Day fans who listened to the record remarked the similarity between the two bands.[citation needed] Money Money 2020 was released on Adeline Records, a record label co-owned by Armstrong. He also worked with the band U2 with The Saints Are Coming.
[edit] Instruments
Armstrong's first guitar was a Cherry Red Hohner acoustic, which his father bought for him. He then received his first electric guitar, a Fernandes Stratocaster copy that he named "Blue", when he was ten. His mother got "Blue" from George Cole who taught Armstrong electric guitar for ten years. Armstrong says in a 1995 MTV interview, "Basically, it wasn't like guitar lessons because I never really learned how to read music. So he just taught me how to put my hands on the thing". George Cole bought the guitar new from David Margen of the band Santana. Cole gave Armstrong a Bill Lawrence Humbucking pickup and told him to install the pickup in the bridge position. After the pickup was destroyed at Woodstock '94, Armstrong then switched to the Duncan JB model. "Armstrong fetishized his teacher's guitar, partly because the blue instrument had a sound quality and Van Halen - worthy fluidity he couldn't get from his little red Hohner. He prized it mostly, however, because of his relationship with Cole, another father figure after the death of Andy."[6] He toured with this guitar from the band's early days and still uses it to this day.[7] "Blue" also appears in several of their music videos starting with "Longview", "Basket Case", "Brain Stew/Jaded", and appearing most recently in "Minority".
Today Armstrong mainly uses Gibson and Fender guitars. Twenty of his Gibson guitars are Les Paul Junior models from the mid- to late-1950s.[8] His Fender collection includes: Stratocaster, Jazzmaster, Telecaster, a Gretsch hollowbody and his copies 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.[9]
Armstrong also has his own line of Les Paul Junior guitars from Gibson. He also often uses his signature line in more of his recent tours. Armstrong also uses Gretsch guitars.
[edit] Personal life
In 1990, Armstrong met Adrienne Nesser at one of Green Day's early shows in Fredericksburg, Texas. They married on July 2, 1994, and the day after their wedding, Adrienne discovered she was pregnant. Their first child, Joseph 'Joey' Marciano Armstrong, was born on February 28, 1995 and was named after Joey Ramone. Their second child, Jakob Danger Armstrong, was born on September 12, 1998. Adrienne is the co-owner of Adeline Records, along with Armstrong.
Armstrong has identified himself as bisexual, saying in a 1995 interview with The Advocate, "I think I've always been bisexual. I mean, it's something that I've always been interested in. I think people are born bisexual, and it's just that our parents and society kind of veer us off into this feeling of 'Oh, I can't.' They say it's taboo. It's ingrained in our heads that it's bad, when it's not bad at all. It's a very beautiful thing."[10][11] In a later interview for Out magazine's April 2010 issue, Armstrong stated: 'There were a lot of people who didn't accept it, who were homophobic." (Armstrong's interviewer, Shana Naomi Krochmal, notes at this point that "Fans still fill message board threads with fights about just how gay Armstrong actually is.") Armstrong continued saying "The fact that it's an issue is kind of phobic within itself. At some point, you gotta think, this should be something that's just accepted.' Armstrong also added: 'I don't really classify myself as anything. And when it comes to sex, there are parts of me that are very shy and conservative. I want to respect my wife.'[12]
"Working Class Hero"
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Armstrong was arrested by Berkeley police in January 2003 for drinking and driving after being pulled over for speeding.[13] He received a breathalyzer reading of 0.17%, more than twice the nation-wide legal limit of 0.08%.[14]
In April 2007, Armstrong and his wife Adrienne sent photos of their spring break working with Habitat For Humanity and a diary to GreenDay.net.[15]
Armstrong supported Barack Obama during the.
BAHASA INDONESIA
Armstrong adalah anak paling muda dari enam bersaudara, lahir di Oakland, California, dan diasuh di Rodeo, California. Ayahnya, Andy Armstrong, adalah pemain musik jazz dan supir truk, telah meninggal karena kanker ketika Armstrong berumur 10 tahun. Ibunya, Ollie Jackson, adalah pelayan di sebuah restoran bernama Rod's Hickory Pit, tempat dimana Billie dan temannya Mike Dirnt bekerja di masa remaja mereka. Rod's Hickory Pit adalah tempat dimana Armstrong dan band nya Sweet Children tampil pertama kali. Ibunya, Ollie salah menulis nama ketika Billie lahir. Dia memberikan nama Billie yang seharusnya di tulis Billy. Armstrong adalah satu-satunya anggota di band Green Day yang menggunakan nama aslinya. Kedua temannya, Michael Ryan Pritchard (Mike Dirnt) dan Frank Edwin Wright III (Tré Cool), telah mengganti nama mereka.
[sunting] Kehidupan pribadi
Pada tahun 2007, Armstrong berumur 35 tahun dan telah menjadi anggota band Green Day selama 18 tahun. Armstrong menikah dengan Adrienne Nesser pada tanggal 2 Juli 1994. Pesta pernikahannya hanya berlangsung selama 5 menit. Satu hari setelah mereka menikah, Adrienne hamil dan pada bulan Maret 1995, ia melahirkan anak pertama mereka, Joseph Marciano Armstrong (lahir 15, Maret, 1995). Tiga tahun kemudian, mereka mempunyai anak kedua, Jakob Danger Armstrong (lahir 12, September 1998).
Adrienne lahir pada bulan 6 Oktober, 1969 di Minneapolis, Minnesota. Saudara lelakinya, Steve Nesser, adalah seorang pemain skateboard professional. Adrienne pun mengambil jurusan Sosiologi di Universitas Minnesota. Ketika menonton konser Green Day di Minnesota, Adrienne mendatangi Armstrong dan bertanya padanya dimana dia bisa membeli album mereka. Armstrong terpesona dengan rambut hitam dan panjang milik Adrienne. Sejak hari itu, mereka berdua terus melanjutkan kontak mereka dengan berbicara di telfon. Ciuman pertama mereka menjadi inspirasi Armstrong untuk menulis lagu 2,000 Light Years Away. Lagu 80 juga bercerita tentang Adrienne. Armstrong sudah berkunjung ke Minnesota dua kali untuk mengunjungi Adrienne, tetapi, setelah pacaran satu setengah tahun, mereka tidak bisa bersama lagi karena tempat tinggal mereka terlalu jauh.
Setelah Armstrong dan Adrienne bertunangan, mereka merencanakan pernikahan mereka hanya dalam kurun waktu 2 minggu. Pernikahan mereka dilaksanakan di belakang rumah Armstrong selama 5 menit. Mereka berbulan madu di Hotel Claremont, yang hanya berjarak 10 menit dari rumah mereka.
Sekarang ini, Adrienne sering terlihat di belakang panggung ketika Green Day tampil. Dia juga bekerja bersama Billie Joe untuk sebuah record label bernama Adeline Record dan sebuah clothing line bernama Adeline Street
[sunting] Masa-masa di Green Day
Pada tahun 1988, Armstrong membuat band bernama Sweet Children dengan temannya, Mike Dirnt, dan seorang drummer bernama Al Sobrante {John Kiffmeyer}. Pada tahun 1989, mereka mengganti namanya menjadi Green Day, dan membuat rekaman 1,000 Hours, di Lookout! Records. Beberapa bulan kemudian, mereka mengeluarkan sebuah album berjudul "1,039 Smoothed Slappy Hours". Pada tahun 1990, Sobrante keluar dari Green Day karena ingin meneruskan sekolahnya dan digantikan dengan Tré Cool (Frank Edwin Wright III), yang melanjutkan album kedua Green Day, Kerplunk!, memainkan semua lagu kecuali 3 buah lagu.
