Though it’s hard to imagine these days given the single’s enormous popularity, Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has revealed that he expected people to “fucking hate” the band’s 1997 single Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life) at the time of its release. The acoustic ballad started to take form while the musician was writing material for Green Day’s iconic 1994 record Dookie, but saved it for a couple of albums because he couldn’t work out how it would fit. Nevertheless, when the time came to include it on Nimrod, he still thought fans wouldn’t like it at all. “Doing something like Good Riddance was terrifying for me, to put myself out there and be that vulnerable,” he tells Kerrang! as part of this week’s life...
