Green Day's story starts back in 1972, the year that all three members were born. Billie Joe Armstrong came into the world as the youngest of six kids born to a working-class family in Rodeo, California, an industrial town fifteen miles north of Berkeley. Billie's Dad was a truck driver and sometimes jazz musician who died when Billie Joe was just ten. Billie's Mom was a waitress and a diehard country music fan. At age eleven, Billie Joe got his first guitar, a blue Stratocaster that he plays to this day. It was around that same time that he met Michael Pritchard. Pritchard, who would late…
