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California punk trio Green Day took a grunge-obsessed music scene by complete surprise in 1994 with their major-label debut album "Dookie," which jump-started a new punk revolution and went on to sell well over 10 million copies. Six albums and 15 years after the group was formed, Green Day had become an institution credited with inspiring a host of like-minded bands, and lead singer and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt, and drummer Tr? Cool were known as the Godfathers of Pop-Punk. The band, however, wasn?t content to sit back on their elder statesmen punk laurels, and instead pulled a fast one in the form of a wildly ambitious punk rock opera entitled American Idiot. The album hit the charts at no less than Number One, garnering major Grammy recognition, unanimous critical acclaim, and multi-platinum sales worldwide. Here's their full story, from the band's humble teenage beginnings focused around the Berkeley punk rock haven to full-fledged rock stardom.

Punk icon Buck Cherry, lead singer and guitarist of the Modernettes, takes us on a tour of his misspent youth in the late '70s early '80s West Coast punk scene. From Vancouver to San Francisco, author John Armstrong records how this newcomer to punk quickly made the acquaintance of scenesters from near and far as his band won fame and ignominy Uncover the real dirt on punk luminaries such as I Braineater, Joey Shithead, Dimwit, Wimpy, Chuck Biscuits, Mary Jo Kopechne and Art Bergmann, among others. Watch as DOA, Active Dog and the Pointed Sticks make spectacles of themselves in fine punk style. From the DOA house on Vancouver's Gore St. to San Francisco's Mabuhay Gardens, and all stops in between, punk rock temples mundane and mythical appear as they were in their festering heyday Guilty of Everything is testimony to the invaluable, unforgettable days that put the West Coast and Vancouver on the punk rock map.

Black Leather (song) - Black Leather was a hard rock/punk rock song about sadomasochism written by Steve Jones and Paul Cook for the all female band The Runaways. The song appeared on the 1978 album, And Now The Runaways, the Runaways' last album.

Bickley, punk rock band - Bickley was an old school punk rock band from Houston, Texas from 1995 until 2001. The band's name is a word derived from Robert DeNiro's character in Taxi Driver, Travis Bickle.

Face to Face (punk band) - This is an article about the California Punk band. For the Boston new wave band with the same name see Face to Face (new wave band)

The Finger (Punk Band) - The Finger are a Hardcore Punk band, formed by Ryan Adams and Jesse Malin, under the pseudonyms 'Warren Peace' and 'Irving Plaza' respectively. This light-hearted project allowed both artists to return to their punk backgrounds (Adams began his music career as singer for 'The Patty Duke Syndrome' and Malin began his as the lead singer of 'D Generation').

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