Sequestered in a lavish home overlooking the East Bay, Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong felt somewhat removed from his audience. He found himself to be short on motivation and long on lethargy. But then, as if from nowhere, inspiration came calling from the unlikeliest of places. The punk rock songwriter nonpareil was listening to the radio while driving his car. For reasons unknown, the station played the song That’s How I Like It from Floridian throwback rockers Lynyrd Skynyrd (as it so happens, the band are from Jacksonville, the city the Green Day singer nominates as being his least favourite place to play in the whole of his home country). In a track comprised entirely of things guaranteed to agitate the nerves of any self-respecting punk rocker, the band sing of how the menfolk ...
