In a new interview on The Howard Stern Show, Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has spoken about the band’s incredible American Idiot single Wake Me Up When September Ends, and how he was honouring his late father. Billie Joe’s dad, Andrew Armstrong, passed away when the singer was just 10 years old, with the story going that Billie said the phrase ‘Wake me up when September ends’ to his mother in the aftermath. When asked if he had written those words down or just held on to it all these years, he replies: “I think it’s something that just stayed with me; the month of September being that anniversary that always is just, I don’t know, kind of a bummer. But it’s weird: when things happen like that when you’re that young, ...
