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Billie recorded his first seven-inch single
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Billie and Mike meet in the school cafeteria and discuss songwriting.
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Billie and Mike, play their first show at Rod's Hickory Pit, where Billie's mom works. Thirty friends show up.
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Billie plays guitar for Corrupted Morals
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Mike sings for Crummy Musicians, since the real singer's mother won't let him go on tour
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First album
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The day after Mike graduates from high school, they hop into a van and do forty-five dates across the U.S.
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Original drummer John Kiftmeyer leaves for college. His drum teacher, Tre Cool, joins the band
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The band released "Kerplunk" and begin to achieve minor fame.
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Green Day decide to leave Lookout! Records and join a major label. There is a huge bidding war amongst the labels but Reprise Records comes out on top and signs the band to a 5 record deal.
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"Dookie" is released and first single "Longview", Green Day's popularity sky-rockets.
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During the coarse of the next two years, Green Day appear on several magazine covers but most notably Rolling Stone and Spin. They also appear on talk shows like "The Late Show with David Letterman", "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" and "Late Night with Conan O'Brian".
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Green Day packs up and heads home claiming exhaustion. During the next year, Billie Joe writes around 50 songs
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The bands "Insomniac" album is released and is loved by reviewers but fails to come close to the sales of "Dookie".
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Green Day record their new album, "Nimrod"
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Green Day make headlines for 'destroying' Tower Records when they trash the store and Billie writes "Fuck You" and "Nimrod" on the windows in black spray-paint
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The band again makes headlines when they thow the stage Christmas tree into the crowd. Once again Billie wrote obscenities on the stage and apparently there was a fight backstage with KROQ workers. KROQ called the police but no charges where laid.
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Green Day release their 6th full length album, "Warning"
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Band launches it's "Warning" tour in St. Paul, MN.
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