The emotional ballad "Wake Me Up When September Ends" was a late addition to the American Idiot tracklist, and became one of the album's biggest hits.
- The song is a personal tribute to frontman Billie Joe Armstrong's father, who died of cancer when Armstrong was ten years old.
- "Wake Me Up When September Ends" reached number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
- The single's music video, directed by Samuel Bayer, was filmed in a field in Vancouver, Canada, and features actors playing the band members as soldiers in a desert setting.
Green Day is a punk rock band from Berkeley, California, formed in 1987. They are one of the most commercially successful punk bands of all time. This single was released in 2005, during the height of the band's mainstream popularity following the massive success of their 2004 album American Idiot.
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