How Green Day's Dookie captured the spirit of a generation — Kerrang!
How Green Day’s Dookie captured the spirit of a generation The rags to riches story of Dookie, the album that made Green Day global superstars and pariahs of the punk rock scene. Words: Stevie Chick The year was 1993 and, notoriously, sharks were patrolling the waters of rock’n’roll’s subterranean scenes. In the wake of Nevermind’s paradigm-shifting success, major labels had scrambled with their chequebooks to every percolating punk rock scene across the U.S., in the hope of sna...
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