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Green Day

American punk rock band founded in 1986. Green Day were initially part of the punk rock environment that formed around the 924 Gilman Street punk club (Berkeley). Their first albums, recorded on the independent label Lookout! Records, allowed the band to earn a multitude of fans. As a result, the band, along with other Californian punks (The Offspring, Rancid), raised a wave of huge interest in punk music not only in the USA but throughout the world. Green Day became the inspiration for such well-known bands as Good Charlotte, Fall Out Boy, Simple Plan, My Chemical Romance, and All Time Low. In 2011, the trio was recognized as the best punk band in the history of music according to the results of a survey conducted by Rolling Stone magazine. In 2015, Green Day were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The band is the most popular and commercially successful punk rock group; during their existence, about 85 million copies of Green Day records have been sold.