Green Day
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2015
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Inducted by:
Fall Out Boy
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Performers
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![Billie Joe Armstrong]()
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![Mike Dirnt]()
Mike Dirnt -
![Tre Cool]()
Tre Cool
Hall of Fame Essay
2015
On September 9, 1994, Green Day took the stage for a free outdoor concert at the Hatch Shell in Boston. The art deco amphitheater and spacious lawn typically hosted more genteel entertainment; the house band was the Boston Pops Orchestra.
But the punk-rock trio - singer-guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt, and drummer Tré Cool Bearne out to a roiling sea of adolescent expectation later estimated by police at sixty-five thousand people.
That mass of flannel and baggy shorts turned into a whirlpool of slam-dancing as soon as Green Day pulled the pin on “Welcome to Paradise,” the sardonic opening grenade on their major-label debut, Dookie.
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Photography: Michael Zorn
