There was a moment while making Green Day’s new record when Billie Joe Armstrong decided that he was going to do something strange. He forewarned his buddy and engineer Chris Dugan, the only other person with him in the California studio at the time, but chose not to elaborate on what exactly it’d be. Billie Joe only asked his friend not to judge him if it went badly. With that, the 47-year-old frontman stepped up to the microphone and began to sing in a sweet, high-pitched falsetto. It was something that the punk rock virtuoso had never dared to try before, and it left him feeling several bus journeys away from his comfort zone. “I’m a really self-conscious person,” Billie Joe reveals. “I think there’s a thing about me where – and maybe it’s where I come from, coming from such a...
