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Green Day have said that US President Barack Obama does not deserve the Nobel Peace Prize.

GREEN Day proved they're no American Idiots when they wowed the crowd at Sheffield Arena last night.

Broken Crow, "Song of the Century". LONDON.- Internationally renowned band, Green Day, has commissioned 21 original pieces of art inspired by music from the band's most recent album release, 21st Century Breakdown.

Art and music often go hand and hand, although Green Day is not necessarily the first band that comes to mind when you think of an art gallery in London, they're breaking their own mold well kind of.

American Idiot: Rock musical. Music by Green Day. Lyrics by Billie Joe Armstrong.

Yeah, Kanye's unsettling display is all the talk of artists coming backstage. If the red carpet was all about the coming Michael Jackson tributes, then the show was about Taylor Swift and Kanye.

Feb. 17, 1972 - Billie Joe Armstrong is born in Oakland. May 4, 1972 - Mike Dirnt is born in Orlando.

Green Day lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong, right, along with bass player Mike Dirnt, left, joke around as they wait for the dress rehearsal of "American Idiot" to begin at the Berkeley Rep Thursday Sept.3, 2009 in Berkeley, Calif.

STORMING THE STAGE: Kanye West takes the microphone from best female video winner Taylor Swift as he praises Beyonce at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards in New York.

Production : American Idiot , music by Green Day, lyrics by Billie Joe Armstrong, book by Billie Joe Armstrong and Michael Mayer, directed by Michael Mayer, choreographed by Steven Hoggett, starring John Gallagher Jr., Matt Caplan, Michael Esper, Tony Vincent, Mary Faber, Rebecca Naomi Jones and Christina Sajous.

Idiot Savants It's easy to gripe about Green Day's politics being reductionist. At least the band provides an entry into some semblance of social awareness for teens and 'tweens. Scene 830 words Blogwire Outside Lands Post-Script Fickle weather and last-minute headliner replacements aside, Outside Lands was a success, by most yard sticks.

Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt of the Grammy-winning band Green Day talk to Tony Award-winning director Michael Mayer as they collaborate on the stage version of American Idiot, which receives its world premiere this fall at Berkeley Repertory Theatre.

Billie Joe Armstrong got it right. The crowd at Sacramento's Arco Arena on Monday night won the unofficial Northern California Green Day Most Explosive Audience award for electricity, energy and all-around enthusiasm.

Green Day's new rock opus, 21st Century Breakdown , fulfills the ambitious promise of American Idiot , singing a lament for troubled times.

Tickets for Green Day 's musical 'American Idiot' have gone on sale early a ' while frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has said it could end up becoming a film.

Tickets for Green Day 's musical 'American Idiot' have gone on sale early a ' while frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has said it could end up becoming a film.

Public Enemy: Their album was a call to arms and remains flammable today. [Trixie Textor Getty Images] Just as every good guy needs a bad guy, a jukebox hero needs a dastardly villain now and then to feel alive, to feel relevant .

If you came of age in the Alternative Nation, there's probably one image from Woodstock '94 that's etched into your brain: that of Billie Joe Armstrong, frontman for a then just-breaking Green Day, inciting a mud fight for the ages between the band and the crowd, galloping around the massive stage with a permanent smirk.

Public Enemy: Their album was a call to arms and remains flammable today. [Trixie Textor Getty Images] Just as every good guy needs a bad guy, a jukebox hero needs a dastardly villain now and then to feel alive, to feel relevant .