Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.When they formed in California in the late 1980s, Green Day appeared unlikely candidates for longevity. The spirited trio were widely dismissed as cartoon punk revivalists; teenage singer-guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong and bassist Mike Dirnt\u2019s onstage party piece was spitting as high in the air as they could and catching the saliva in their mouths.How unwise that dismissal appears now. Thirty-five years and more than 75mn record sales down the line, their latest world mega-tour last weekend found them entertaining 50,000 people at the Emirates Old Trafford cricket ground in Lancashire, revisiting two albums that both went multi-platinum in the pre-streaming days.Green Day have always baulked at being described as \u201cpunk-pop\u201d, which is unfortunate, because punk-pop is exactly what they are. Their 1994 breakthrough album, Dookie, played in full here, welded the fervour and attitudinal edge of punk to taut, sweet melodies and pop hooks you could hang your hat on.Dookie was a restless quest for teenage kicks, and Green Day\u2019s bid to recapture them in middle age is aided by the fact that they are ageing remarkably well. Armstrong, 52, looks absurdly youthful under a peroxide thatch. Drummer Tr\u00e9 Cool is more weather-worn but sports a decidedly fetching turquoise quiff.Firing through that album of adolescent angst, the trio reinhabited its ache and yearning with a frenzy of urgency in perpetual motion. Riffs were short-arm jabs to the solar plexus. Armstrong\u2019s wrist was, fittingly, a blur on \u201cLongview\u201d, a paean to frantic pubescent masturbation: \u201cSome say quit or I\u2019ll go blind\/But it\u2019s just a myth.\u201dGreen Day\u2019s early appeal was largely predicated on their self-effacing humour \u2014 and they remain happy to goof. Cool emerged from behind his drums to don a leopard-skin robe and drawl Dookie hidden track \u201cAll By Myself\u201d, looking like a demented Batman villain. Yet the second half of the evening possessed rather more gravitas.After a flurry of songs from this year\u2019s UK number-one album, Saviors, the trio revisited their career-high-point 2004 record, American Idiot. An audacious concept album and rock opera indebted to The Who\u2019s Tommy, this towering work both won them a Grammy and spawned its own Broadway musical.A salutary reminder that punk was founded in rage at societal dysfunction, American Idiot gave Green Day a way to grow up. In stark contrast to the fun flippancy of their early years, the album looked to convey what its title track called the \u201cnew kind of tension\u201d of George W Bush\u2019s America, post-9\/11 and the invasion of Iraq.Like Dookie, it has aged well. Armstrong\u2019s ire sounded intact and authentic here as he spat out insurrectionary words in \u201cJesus of Suburbia\u201d and \u201cLetterbomb\u201d. \u201cWake Me Up When September Ends\u201d, a tribute to his father, who died when he was 10, also remained hauntingly affecting.Their two-hour set maintained an impressive level of intensity. In Green Day\u2019s traditional show-closer, \u201cGood Riddance\u201d, Armstrong crooned, \u201cI hope you had the time of your life.\u201d Fifty thousand raised voices indicated that that had, indeed, been the case.\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2606greenday.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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