Green Day share three songs from deluxe ‘American Idiot’ 20th anniversary reissue

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Green Day have released three songs from the deluxe 20th anniversary reissue of their seminal album ‘American Idiot’.Announced last month, the “limited edition super deluxe box sets” of their Grammy Award-winning 2004 record will be released on October 25.

Fans will be able to buy the collection on 8LP vinyl and 4CD, with each package also containing two Blu-ray discs.Additionally, Green Day will drop a limited edition colour vinyl of the original 2LP version of ‘American Idiot’.Today, they’ve dropped three new tracks – a demo version of ‘Wake Me Up When September Ends’, the B-side ‘Governator’, and a live version of ‘St.

Jimmy’ from the band’s VH1 Storytellers performance in 2005.They previously released ‘Holiday/Boulevard Of Broken Dreams (Demo)’, fan favourite B-side ‘Favorite Son’ and ‘Minority (Live From Irving Plaza)’The deluxe edition of ‘American Idiot’ also contains a brand-new, 110-minute documentary film titled 20 Years Of American Idiot.

The other disc features the Heart Like A Hand Grenade movie, which documents “nine months with Green Day” as they record ‘American Idiot’.Green Day have been performing ‘American Idiot’ in its entirety on their 2024 ‘Saviors’ world tour to celebrate the album’s 20th anniversary.In a five-star review of the band’s show in Manchester this summer, NME wrote: “By the time we reach ‘American Idiot’, Armstrong has hit red-hot form, and the volume seems to have been cranked up a notch.