By Chris Willman Music Writer If Billie Joe Armstrong’s solo version of the somber “Wake Me Up When September Ends” on Saturday night’s “One World: Together at Home” broadcast left you at all down in the mouth, he’s got the immediate antidote for that.
On Monday the Green Day singer released his cover version of the theme song for the 1996 film “That Thing You Do!,” a song that in any variation is destined to turn COVID-19-related frowns upside down.
The coronavirus crisis did provide a sad reason for bringing such a happy song back into the forefront of the nation’s consciousness, of course. “That Thing You Do!” was written by the late Adam Schlesinger, who died April 1 from symptoms of the disease. “Another week, another No Fun
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