G is for Green Day

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Day

Green Day is an American-based punk rok band that started in 1987 in East Bay, California. The band consists of Billie Joe Armstrong on lead vocals and guitar, Mike Dirnt on back up vocals and bass guitar and Tre Cool on drums. He replaced john Kiffmeyer in 1990.

Thier 1994 album Dookie was a success. After that, 3 of their albums, Nimrod, Warning and Insomniac didn't go over so well. They were considered to be commercial failures. In 2004, their popularity went through the roof with the release of their rock opera American Idiot, which became widely popular with teh younger generation, including my sister, lol!! In 2009, they released their 21st Century Breakdown album, which is their 8th studio album.

they have won 5 Grammy Awards for:
Best Alternative Rock album-Dookie
Best Rock album-American Idiot
Record of the Year-Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Best Rock Album again- 21st Century Breakdown
Best Musical Show Album-American Idiot

On 15, 2009, their 21st Century Breakdown album was released. Alot of places, such as Wal-Mart refused to sell it because of there being a Parental Adivsory Warning label on the front for explicit lyrics, although it's the same thing on the front of the American Idiot album.

The kind of music they do can be compared to bands like The Sex Pistols, The Buzzcocks, The Ramones, The Clash, The Jam, and Stiff Little Fingers. The band has said that their inspirations have been Cheap Trick and The Who.

From left to right: Mike Dirnt, Billie Joe Armstrong, Tre Cool. the one in the middle is the one my sister especially likes!!

B is for Billy Idol

William Michael Albert Broad was born on November 30, 1955, in Stanmore, Middlesex, England. He is better known by his stage name Billy Idol. He emerged in the punk rock era as a member of the band Generation X. He is considered to be one of the first MTV stars and has done a lot of solo work and has made alot of stylish music videos. He currently tours with singer Steve Stevens.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Idol

The song that got him noticed was his song Dancing With Myself and a cover of the Tommy James and the Shondell's song Mony Mony. In 1989, he appeared on stage with the Who as Cousin Tommy in the stage production of the Who rock opera Tommy. In the 1998 movie The Wedding Singer, Idol had a cameo appearance which he saved the relationship between Adam Sandler's character and Drew Barrymore's character, and in the movie The Doors, he appeared in there as well, playing Jim's drinking buddy Cat.

In 2008, the widely popular Guitar Hero World Tour came out, and Idol's song Rebel Yell appeared in the game, and on Rock Band 2, a game similar to Guitar Hero only you use drums, guitars, microphone, the whole nine yards, Idol's song White Wedding appeared.

2000+

The 2000 and on decade. Nothing interesting here!!!!

History

• The US sees it's first black president, Barack Obama

• Dec. 12, 2003: Rolling Stones front man recieves honorary knighthood from the Prince of Wales, much to the dismay of fellow Stones member Keith Richards

• Sept. 11, 2001: the World Trade Center towers are hit by hijacked planes

• Feb. 22, 2006: the 1 billionth song is downloaded from iTunes
• April 16, 2003: major SARS virus breakout in southeast Asia
• The year 2000 and on are a literal 2nd British Invasion with the release of the Harry Potter movies, more British TV shows are coming to the US and becoming popular, like Top Gear, My Family, Keeping Up Appearances, Mr. Bean, Primeval, etc.

Music
The Baha Men
Nelly Furtado
Tim McGraw

Nickelback

Aaliyah

Movies
The Man from Elysian Fields

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Dream Girls
Flushed Away

Wallace and Gromit: the Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Secondhand Lions

The Prestige

Mr. Bean's Holiday

The Forbidden Kingdom

1980s!!

When it comes to the 1980s, not alot is known about this decade except for the fact that one of the Beatles, John Lennon, was brutally murdered in NYC by a guy posing as a fan!

History

• Dec. 8, 1980: This day will live in infamy for every Beatles fan ever! This is the day that former Beatle John Lennon is burtally murdered by Mark David Chapman, a crazed gunman who posed as a fan. Lennon was shot 4 times in the back of the head in front of his Dakota Apartment building and evern worse, in front of his wife Yoko Ono. It must be horrible to just stand there and watch your husband be brutally murdered right in front of your eyes!

• Peter Sutcliffe, aka the Yorkshire Ripper, is arrested for 13 murders
• Lethal injection first used in Texas
• AIDS virus discovered
• 270 people killed in Lockerbie, Scotland bombing
• Protests in Tianenmen Square, in Peking, China
• Space shuttle Challenger explodes 74 seconds after liftoff
• Chernobyl disaster in the Ukraine
• May 11, 1981: Reggae legend Bob Marley dies from skin cancer

• The Jamaican National Bobsled team stuns everyone by winning at the 1988 Winter Olympics
• August 1, 1981: MTV premiers for the first time
• With the death of actor Rock Hudson, awareness for the disease AIDS rises
• Drug problems increase with the introduction of crack cocaine in the L.A. area
• The Rolling Stones release their Steel Wheels album and are inducted in to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989, which marks the end of the fighting between front man Mick Jagger and lead guitarist Keith Richards. And the band goes on a tour of the same name later that year

This is basically the 1989-1990 Steel Wheels/Urban Jungle tour on DVD for those who didn't get to go.

Music

• The B-52's
• Billy Idol
• Twisted Sister
• The Rolling Stones(These guys were popular in EVERY decade!)
• Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
• The Ramones
• The Sex Pistols
• Def Leppard

• U2

• Foreigner

• Van Halen

• Motley Crue

• Aerosmith

Movies

• First Blood

• Rambo: First Blood pt.II
• Rambo III
• Scarface

• The Shining
• Prizzi's Honor

• Let's Spend the Night Together

• Mississippi Burning

• Gorillas in the Mist
• Labyrinth

• Witness
• The Untouchables
• Blade Runner
• Tootsie
• Moonstruck
• Caddyshack

People Born/Famous

Celebrities popular:
Patrick Swayze
Emilio Estevez
Cher
Lisa Whelchel
Sylvester Stallone

People Born:
Wilmer Valderrama

Keira Knightley

Elijah Wood

Daniel Radcliffe(OMG! what a hottie!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Beyonce

Nicole Richie

Avril Lavigne

Kelly and Jack Osbourne

Kirsten Dunst

U2

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1277752/bio

• Started in Dublin, Ireland, in 1976
• Strong believers in human rights
• Consists of Bono(lead singer/songwriter), Adam Clayton(bass guitar), Larry Mullen Jr(drums), and The Edge(lead guitar, keyboards, vocals)
• Been popular since the late 1980s
• They strongly ID themselves as Christians, except for The Edge and it is obvious in their music, such as songs like I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
• One of their more popular songs is Sunday Bloody Sunday, which is about all the innocent civilians being murdered during the Irish troubles. They used this song to campaign against the IRA(Irish Republican Army)'s efforts to fuel money into fighting. Eventually the IRA threatened U2 by saying that if they continued using the song, they'd be kidnapped. U2 went ahead anyway
• Their 1984 album Unforgettable Fire was inspired by paintings of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings
• At the Live Aid concert in 1985, Bono was there to help raise money and it suprised everyone when Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones showed up and started singing with him. The concert raised money to send to Ethiopia who was suffering a severe drought, and during the concert, Bono went down into the audience.
• They were the 4th band to appear on the front of Time Magazine, the others were The Beatles, The Band, The Who
• Have the most Grammy awards, 22
• The show One Tree Hill is taken from the song One Tree Hill from their album The Joshua Tree