Who doesn’t love Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong? In his honour we decided to furnish you with a whole bunch of little-known – or maybe even unknown – facts. Because we’re generous like that. Enjoy… 1. He’s probably one of the first blue collar punks As well as being a budding jazz musician, Billie Joe’s father, Andy Armstrong, was also a truck driver for Safeway Inc. It was his dad’s profession that gave the son his first taste of blue-collar politics. In the song Too Dumb To Die, from Revolution Radio, he recalls these times in the lines ‘My daddy was always on strike… the picket line screamed / Don’t cross the line / Because you’ll be a scab not a martyr.’ 2. He has a special, long-standing connection to ‘Blue’ At the age of 10, Billie Joe bought h...
