*Green Day's first name was Sweet Children.
*Green Day's first drummer was John Kiffmeyer who went by Al Sobrante.
*Billie Joe wrote his first song when he was five called Looking for Love. The first song he wrote that was recorded was Why Do You Want Him at age twelve.
*Billie Joe's natural hair color is reddish brown.
*Billie made a guitar called Blue.
*Tre's real name is Frank Edwin Wright III
*There is a hidden track called All By Myself on Dookie
*There is two different versions of Welcome To Paradise on Kerplunk and Dookie
*Dookie was a grammy for Best Alternative Music Performance Of 1994.
*Billie Joe and Mike have been playing together in the fifth grade when they formed Sweet Children.
*In 1990, Green Day released their debut album 39/Smooth and a second EP, which cost just $600 to record.
*Kerplunk was recorded in May and September 1991 in just 5 days. Kerplunk as well as 39/Smooth sold 30,000 copies each by the end of 1992. This broke all of the Lookout's previous sales records.
