• Green Day has sold more than 65 million albums worldwide! The band has won four Grammy Awards: Best Alternative Album for Dookie, Best Rock Album for American Idiot, Record of the Year for “Boulevard of Broken Dreams,” and Best Rock Album for the second time for 21st Century Breakdown. In 2010, a stage adaptation of American Idiot debuted on Broadway. The musical won two Tony Awards.

• With oversized trim, the book will include 200 glossy, color photos comprised of candid personal photos from each member and band photos, including: performance shots, promotional photos, magazine shoots, and album covers. In addition, other pieces of ephemera. will be included, such as: ticket stubs, set lists, magazine covers, posters, backstage passes, etc.

• This is the first official book about the band, by the band.

• Green Day’s ninth album—Awesome as Fuck—is scheduled for release in March 2011.

• Green Day has over 1 million followers on Twitter: @greenday and 12 million fans on facebook.  
 
 

The dynamic first book from the popular punk rock band Green Day will include hundreds of photographs of the band on tour and backstage, as well as ephemera including backstage passes, ticket stubs, handwritten notes and lyrics, and more. These gorgeous photos will be supplemented with lyrics from their last two hit albums American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown, and captions from the rest of the band. This fan must-have will also feature a foreword by Billie Joe Armstrong.