Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day
Photography by Rick McGinnis
“Green Day were goofs, fairly typical Californian punk musicians, with a strange mix of adolescent unpretentiousness, a reflexive intolerance for authority, and a political viewpoint that would be called politically correct if they had an ounce of self-righteousness, which they don’t. They were trashing their hotel room while I took these photos. Hotel management kicked them out later that day.”
Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day at the Sutton Place Hotel in Toronto, October 1997.