It’s been over 20 years since Green Day’s lost seventh album Cigarettes And Valentines was mysteriously stolen, and in a new interview the band have reflected on the positives and negatives of that peculiar – but ultimately beneficial – situation. Speaking with Kevan Kenney for an Audacy Check-In last week, the trio – Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool – explained that it was a “bummer” at the time to have their master tapes apparently nicked, but equally it became a “blessing” because they scrapped their previous work and then went on to write one of the greatest rock albums ever in American Idiot. “They were just gone,” said Tré of the Cigarettes And Valentines recordings, “so somebody probably stole them – maybe didn’t know what was on them.” “I’v...
