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Billie Joe Armstrong, fifty-one, is the lead singer and guitarist of the pioneering punk-pop band Green Day. This year marks the thirtieth anniversary of the group’s breakthrough record, Dookie, and twenty years since the release of the multiplatinum album American Idiot, which was adapted into a Broadway musical. On January 19, Armstrong and his Green Day bandmates—drummer Tré Cool and bassist Mike Dirnt—are releasing Saviors, the group’s fourteenth studio album. The band starts a major tour t…
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