{"id":1189,"date":"2022-05-28T17:37:58","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T15:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuelfh.be\/concrete-jungle\/?post_type=groupmember&#038;p=1189"},"modified":"2022-05-28T17:40:38","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T15:40:38","slug":"billie-joe-armstrong","status":"publish","type":"groupmember","link":"https:\/\/manuelfh.be\/concrete-jungle\/groupmember\/billie-joe-armstrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Billie Joe Armstrong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Billie Joe Armstrong<\/strong>\u00a0(born February 17, 1972) is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and actor. He is best known as the lead vocalist, primary songwriter, and lead guitarist of the rock band\u00a0Green Day, which he co-founded with\u00a0Mike Dirnt\u00a0in 1987. He is also a guitarist and vocalist for the punk rock band\u00a0Pinhead Gunpowder, and provides lead vocals for Green Day&rsquo;s side projects\u00a0Foxboro Hot Tubs,\u00a0The Network,\u00a0The Longshot, and\u00a0The Coverups. Armstrong has been considered by critics as one of the greatest\u00a0punk rock\u00a0guitarists of all time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Green Day - Boulevard Of Broken Dreams [Official Music Video]\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Soa3gO7tL-c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Armstrong developed an interest in music at a young age, and recorded his first song at the age of five. He met Dirnt while attending elementary school, and the two instantly bonded over their mutual interest in music, forming the band Sweet Children when the two were 14 years old. The band later changed its name to Green Day. Armstrong has also pursued musical projects including numerous collaborations with other musicians. In 1997, to coincide with the release of&nbsp;<em>Nimrod<\/em>, he founded&nbsp;Adeline Records&nbsp;to help support other bands, signing acts such as&nbsp;The Frustrators,&nbsp;AFI, and&nbsp;Dillinger Four. The record company later shut down in August 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billie Joe Armstrong\u00a0(born February 17, 1972) is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and actor. He is best known as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1190,"template":"","tags":[89],"membercat":[80],"class_list":["post-1189","groupmember","type-groupmember","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-green-day","membercat-vocal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuelfh.be\/concrete-jungle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/groupmember\/1189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuelfh.be\/concrete-jungle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/groupmember"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuelfh.be\/concrete-jungle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/groupmember"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuelfh.be\/concrete-jungle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/manuelfh.be\/concrete-jungle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/groupmember\/1189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1197,"href":"https:\/\/manuelfh.be\/concrete-jungle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/groupmember\/1189\/revisions\/1197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuelfh.be\/concrete-jungle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuelfh.be\/concrete-jungle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuelfh.be\/concrete-jungle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1189"},{"taxonomy":"membercat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuelfh.be\/concrete-jungle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/membercat?post=1189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}