Green Day

Billie Joe Armstrong ought to be a laughing stock, for a number of reasons.

1. Punk is English, and he and his band come from California.
2. Punk is dead, anyway.
3. He married in his early twenties and had a family and still happily wed, which is not very rock'n'roll.
4. He has a girl's name.
5. He has been in a band with his best friend from school for 23 years, which is not very punk.
6. He wears masses of eyeliner, in his forties.
7. He does cover versions of cheesy songs in the middle of his show (Highway To Hell, anyone?)
8. He brings kids up on stage to sing his songs.

Yet this does not stop him and his music being really cool. He has enough charisma to rock Wembley Stadium (which U2 failed to do last year). He has more energy and zest and passion than any performer I've ever seen. And it somehow makes him really sexy.

I shouldn't, but I would.

Postscript, Monday.

"I bet you like him, mummy, don't you. He looks like he comes from your olden times".