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Billie Joe Armstrong’s mother gave him a 12-string acoustic guitar when he was a freshman in high school. He teamed up with Mike Pritchard, a friend since grade school, to form a band called Sweet Children. The pair lived in an Oakland, California, squat and were heavily influenced by the music of The Replacements and […]
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