In 1999, Dexter Holland ran into “a random guy” in an interaction Curb Your Enthusiasm’s Larry David would describe as ‘a stop and chat’. Awkward pleasantries soon dispensed with, the two strangers got down to some serious small talk, discussing the status of Dexter’s band, The Offspring. There was much to report: the punk rockers had released their fifth studio album, Americana, the previous year, selling more than 175,000 copies in its first week. This was helped in no small part by the success of its incessant lead single, Pretty Fly (For A White Guy), which went to Number One in the UK Singles Chart, and, in a sign of its zeitgeist-defining success, received the parody treatment from comedian ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic (as Pretty Fly For A Rabbi). None of these accolades seemed to matter, tho...
