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‘Broadway Idiot’ Interview: Director Doug Hamilton on Documenting Billie Joe Armstrong’s Personal Journey

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Christopher Campbell
Oct 10, 2013
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If you were at all surprised that Green Day’s American Idiot became a musical, you might want to look at how smoothly the transition went. Whether you accept the band as truly punk or not, there’s still the matter of this particular album being a very personal and very politically charged work that didn’t really seem to fit with the big time, business-o…

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