Editing Billie Joe Armstrong (section)

==Early life==
Armstrong was born in [[Oakland, California]],<ref>{{cite AV media | title = Driven: Green Day | medium = VH1 | url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz0rCuUX5D0 | access-date = February 23, 2015 | time = 2:05 | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151031162458/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz0rCuUX5D0 | archive-date = October 31, 2015 | df = mdy-all }}</ref> on February 17, 1972,<ref name="17 February 2016">{{cite web|last1=Else|first1=Loren|title=Today in History: Yellow ribbons tied on trees and light standards|url=http://www.postbulletin.com/news/local/today-in-history-yellow-ribbons-tied-on-trees-and-light/article_53eba0ad-b363-5e4b-bfe9-0257710345e2.html|website=Post Bulletin|date=February 17, 2016 |access-date=February 17, 2016}}</ref> the youngest of six children of Ollie Jackson (born 1932)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2007/05/13/sons-on-a-roll-but-moms-the-rock/|title=Son's on a roll, but mom's the rock|work=[[East Bay Times]]|date=May 13, 2007|access-date=July 13, 2019|archive-date=July 13, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190713044513/https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2007/05/13/sons-on-a-roll-but-moms-the-rock/|url-status=live}}</ref> and Andrew Marsicano Armstrong (1928–1982).<ref name=RS>[[Colapinto, John]] (November 17, 2005), "[http://www.greendayauthority.com/articles/85/1/ Working Class Heroes] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120710233029/http://www.greendayauthority.com/articles/85/1/ |date=July 10, 2012 }}". ''[[Rolling Stone]]''. (987):50–56</ref> He was raised in [[Rodeo, California]]. His father, a jazz musician and truck driver for [[Safeway]], died of [[esophageal cancer]] on September 10, 1982, when Armstrong was 10 years old.<ref name=RS/> The song "[[Wake Me Up When September Ends]]" is a memorial to his father. Armstrong has five siblings, including three older sisters, Marci, Hollie, and Anna, and two older brothers, David and Alan. His mother worked as a waitress at Rod's Hickory Pit in [[El Cerrito, California]], where he and [[Mike Dirnt]] later played their first gig in 1987.<ref name=RS/> His great-great-grandparents Pietro Marsicano and Teresa Nigro were Italian immigrants from [[Viggiano]], who settled in [[Boston]] prior to relocating to [[Berkeley, California]], in 1869.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://napoli.repubblica.it/cronaca/2018/02/16/news/potenza_il_leader_dei_green_day_e_di_origini_lucane-188983065/ |title=Potenza, il leader dei Green Day è di origini lucane |work=la Repubblica |date=February 16, 2018 |access-date=February 24, 2018 |language=it |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180224173845/http://napoli.repubblica.it/cronaca/2018/02/16/news/potenza_il_leader_dei_green_day_e_di_origini_lucane-188983065/ |archive-date=February 24, 2018 |url-status=live  }}</ref>

Armstrong attended Hillcrest Elementary School in Rodeo, where a teacher encouraged him to record a song titled "Look for Love" at the age of five<ref>{{cite web|url=https://loudwire.com/hear-5-year-old-billie-joe-armstrong-look-for-love/|title=Hear 5-Year-Old Billie Joe Armstrong Singing 'Look for Love'|author=Childers, Chad|publisher=LoudWire|date=July 19, 2015|access-date=July 16, 2019|archive-date=July 16, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190716205840/https://loudwire.com/hear-5-year-old-billie-joe-armstrong-look-for-love/|url-status=live}}</ref> on the [[Bay Area]] label Fiat Records.<ref name=RS/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.recordmecca.com/view_item.aspx?id=82 |title=Look for Love |publisher=Record Mecca |access-date=August 14, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721124647/http://www.recordmecca.com/view_item.aspx?id=82 |archive-date=July 21, 2011 }}</ref> After his father died, his mother married a man whom her children disliked, which resulted in Armstrong's further retreat into music.{{citation needed|date=June 2016}} At the age of 10, he met future bandmate [[Mike Dirnt]] in the school cafeteria, and they immediately bonded over their love of music.<ref name=RS/> He became interested in [[punk rock]] after being introduced to the genre by his brothers.<ref>{{cite magazine | author=Armstrong, Billie Joe | year=2005 | title=The Sex Pistols | magazine=Rolling Stone | url=https://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/7235474/58_the__pistols | access-date=October 28, 2006 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090520012914/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/7235474/58_the__pistols | archive-date=May 20, 2009 | df=mdy-all }}</ref> He has cited [[Van Halen]], [[Ramones]], [[The Replacements (band)|the Replacements]], and [[Hüsker Dü]] as musical influences. The first concert he ever attended was Van Halen in 1984. After Hillcrest Elementary, Armstrong attended Carquinez Middle School and [[John Swett High School]], both in [[Crockett, California]], and later transferred to [[Pinole Valley High School]] in [[Pinole, California]]. On his 18th birthday, he dropped out to pursue a musical career.{{citation needed|date=January 2020}}