Published 09/23/2024 3:34:19 a.m.

Green Day receives key to the city in Bay Area hometown of Pinole

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By Web Staff Click here for updates on this story PINOLE, California (KGO) — One of the biggest rock bands to come out of the Bay Area was back in familiar territory on Sunday. Members of Green Day were in Pinole, their hometown, for a very special occasion. They received the key to the city in a ceremony held outside a 7-Eleven, right across the street from Pinole Valley High School. It’s the the same location the band sings about in sever…

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KIFI

Green Day receives key to the city in Bay Area hometown of Pinole

09/23/2024 7:39:45 p.m.·Idaho Falls, United States

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KVIA

Green Day receives key to the city in Bay Area hometown of Pinole

09/23/2024 7:39:45 p.m.·Panama City, United States

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The Mercury news

Green Day receives key to Bay Area city where punk-rock icons would ditch high school

PINOLE — A commemorative plaque on the wall outside a 7-Eleven might have seemed like a strange way for a small town to honor the globetrotting musical act that hails from it. But the band that two decades ago recorded “Jesus of Suburbia” — a nine-minute song in which, at one point, the title character describes the convenience store’s parking lot as “the center of the Earth” — is probably best suited to find in it a kind of punk-rock irony. Gre…

09/23/2024 12:57:24 p.m.·San Jose, United States

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