Green Day have sold 50 million albums and single-handedly redefined the punk and rock genre for an entire generation. Inspired by both the energy of British punk bands as well as cult American groups, Green Day gigged relentlessly across the US underground before their 1994 major label smash Dookie. Many now credit the band with saving rock from the hands of a hundred grunge-lite acts.

In 2004 Green Day reached a career pinnacle with the concept album American Idiot, a sophisticated commentary on modern life.
This book is the world’s first biography on Green Day. An authority on punk and hardcore, Myers charts the band members’ difficult childhoods and their rise to success. The author has also interviewed the band at different stages of their career, including in the midst of a riot in Los Angeles during the making of 2000’s Warning album.
After fifteen years together and still in their early thirties, Green Day are the biggest punk band in the world … This is how it happened.