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Green Day: Nassau Coliseum, Long Island, NY

Carol Cooper, Newsday, 1995

BY MATCHING the cheeky insouciance of the early Beatles with the amphetamine hooks of the Ramones in the late ‘80s, Green Day graduated rock and roll high school built for maximum velocity.

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